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Press Release Armenia October 7
Samaritan’s Purse Airlifts Relief Supplies to Help Families Fleeing to Armenia BOONE, N.C., Oct. 7, 2023—Today, Samaritan’s Purse airlifted more than 30 tons of emergency relief supplies to help families impacted by a new wave of conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. On September 19, violence erupted in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, forcing approximately 100,000 people to…
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Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Airlifts Critical Aid and Disaster Response Specialists to Flood-Stricken Brazil Via Back-to-Back Flights
Samaritan’s Purse airlifts critical aid and disaster response specialists to flood-stricken Brazil via back-to-back flights Boone, N.C. May 13, 2024—Over the weekend, Samaritan's Purse deployed its DC-8 and 757 cargo planes to Porto Alegre, Brazil in response to the catastrophic flooding and landslides that have struck the nation. In less than two weeks, the onslaught…
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Press Release Dallas Tornado Response 10-22-19
Samaritan's Purse Sends Disaster Relief Unit, Staff and Supplies to Dallas Following Devastating Tornadoes BOONE, N.C., Oct. 22, 2019 Samaritan’s Purse is providing critical relief to Dallas, Texas families after three tornadoes simultaneously struck the community—leaving a 16-mile path of debris and destroying hundreds of homes. After helping more than 160 families return home following…
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Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Deploys to Help Families Impacted by Deadly Tornadoes in Iowa
Samaritan’s Purse Deploys to Help Families Impacted by Deadly Tornadoes in Iowa Boone, N.C. May 23, 2024—Samaritan’s Purse has staff on the ground in southwest Iowa responding after a dangerous storm system produced numerous tornadoes, large hail and heavy rain across the state on Tuesday. One powerful twister nearly flattened the heart of Greenfield, Iowa,…
50 Years of Ministry
Praise the Lord! 56,000 Answered the Call to Help an African Hospital
Dr. Lowell Furman and Franklin Graham went to Kenya to visit Tenwek Hospital. The facility was so badly overcrowded that there were sometimes three patients in a bed, and occasionally a fourth person on the floor underneath. Tenwek obviously needed new facilities, but Samaritan’s Purse had never taken on such an enormous project. In 1980,…
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Samaritan’s Purse Releases Free Kids’ Bible Game App
Samaritan’s Purse Releases Free Kids’ Bible Game App BOONE, N.C., Jan. 28, 2020 Christian parents now have a new resource to help their kids learn about the Bible based on a discipleship program that’s already leading millions of children to Christ all over the world. Samaritan’s Purse has released a mobile app, called Greatest Journey, that lets kids…
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Hope Returning After Bushfires in Australia
Winds roaring like a jet engine woke Ean Newell in the dead of night just days following Christmas. Flames licked the tops of the trees on the horizon surrounding his Mogo, New South Wales, home and the resulting heat rose exponentially as the blaze barreled toward him with shocking speed. “I saw [the fire] coming…
50 Years of Ministry
Caring for Women of War-Torn Bosnia
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee from their homes. It was an especially terrifying ordeal for pregnant women who crossed the border into Croatia, completely empty-handed and alone. Hearing their stories, Franklin Graham was moved with compassion and wanted to meet the needs of these women who…
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OCC Special Report Pacific Islands Story
Special Report A Project of Samaritan's Purse Children on Remote Pacific Islands Respond to the Gospel A new Operation Christmas Child initiative is bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to isolated island nations. Some communities in the Marshall Islands are so isolated that the only way to reach them is by boat. On Lib…
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Press Release Mississippi Flooding 2-19-20
Samaritan's Purse Responders on the Ground in Mississippi After Historic Flooding BOONE, N.C., Feb. 19, 2020 Tractor Trailer Stocked with Tools and Relief Supplies Deployed from Dallas Warehouse Samaritan’s Purse is on the ground in Mississippi after days of heavy rainfall saturated communities along the Pearl River—creating widespread devastation and displacing hundreds of families. Immediately…
