In Mongolia, Enkhsaruul turned blue whenever she cried, one of the signs that she had a congenital heart defect. Her condition made her a candidate for cardiac surgery through the Samaritan’s Purse Children’s Heart Project. After being accepted into our program, she and her mom, Boloroo, traveled to Grand Cayman in 2022 when Enkhsaruul was…
Media
Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Ethiopia Airlift 2-12-2021
Samaritan's Purse Airlifts 30+ Tons of Food Supplies to Conflict-Stricken Ethiopia; Thousands of Children at Risk of Severe Malnutrition Boone, N.C., Feb. 12, 2021—Samaritan’s Purse, an international Christian relief organization, is airlifting life-saving food to children suffering in northern Ethiopia. Months of internal conflict within the country has left millions without access to basic necessities.…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Helping to Save Lives in Sudan
Each morning, long before daybreak, Nadia* would travel to the local market to sell tea and coffee to bleary-eyed residents just waking up in her town in southern Sudan. She had to rise quite early so she could finish her business before her school started. Though she’s now a mother of three, she was hungry…
50 Years of Ministry
Restoring Hope to a Nation Grieving and Crippled by Violence
In the spring and summer of 1994, the Hutus took up arms against the Tutsis and commenced with the brutal slaying of more than 800,000 people—men, women, and children—in a little over three months. The massacre, concurrent with a years-long civil war between the two tribes’ military forces, crippled the East African nation of Rwanda.…
Operation Christmas Child
The Greatest Journey Photos
The Greatest Journey These photographs are available for news media outlet use in coverage of Samaritan's Purse-related stories. If your news outlet uses a photograph, please credit: "Courtesy of Samaritan's Purse." These photographs are not for commercial use. Boys and girls in Ghana eagerly raise their hands to answer a question in The Greatest Journey discipleship…
Health & Medical Ministries
Far from Home, a Mother Finds Jesus Is Her Greatest Friend
UPDATE: Uuganaa was baptized in a swimming pool on Saturday, May 30, as a profession of her faith in Jesus Christ. A month later on June 30, she and her son were among 25 Children’s Heart Project patients, mothers, and interpreters from Mongolia who we flew back to their homeland via our DC-8 aircraft after…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Franklin Graham Travels to Colombia to Support Work with Venezuelan Migrants
NOTE: This article reflects the situation in Colombia/Venezuela as of Franklin Graham’s trip in Oct. 2018. For more recent information, go to our Colombia relief landing page and see other updated articles listed there. As Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham walked the Simón Bolívar International Bridge in Cúcuta, Colombia on Monday, he was moved by…
Discipleship, Education & Training
Making Disciples in the Philippines
Every medical test indicated that Tess had cancer. Doctors told her that the tumor was large and should be removed as soon as possible. Yet, on the day of her surgery, the tumor was gone. None of the doctors could explain what had happened—but Tess knew. “God took it out,” she said. “God gave me…
Crisis & Disaster Response
Southeast Church Among First to Welcome an Afghan Family
The children run to greet them with a slew of hugs and smiles before they even get the door open all the way. They’re so excited to welcome the team and to see what surprises the day will bring. They might share a meal together, go to the grocery store, visit the park, or shop…
Construction Projects
New School, New Start
Boys and girls swarm over playground equipment—swinging, sliding, and climbing in the fresh air before heading inside for lessons chock full of new materials. Relishing in open spaces, new walls, and innovative ways in which to learn, these Cambodian children thank Samaritan’s Purse for providing them with a new, much improved school. Opened this past…
