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Myanmar Earthquake Press Kit
Press Releases Fact Sheets & Bios Photos B-roll Myanmar Earthquake Response Samaritan’s Purse is responding to the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand on March 28, 2025. This earthquake caused massive damage to infrastructure, killed more than 3,000 people, and injured countless more. In response, Samaritan’s Purse has deployed a Disaster Assistance…
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Central United States Tornado Response Press Kit
Press Releases Fact Sheets & Bios Photos B-roll Central United States Tornado Response Samaritan’s Purse is responding in Laurel County, Kentucky and St. Louis, Missouri after several, deadly EF3 tornadoes struck on Friday, May 16, causing extensive structural damage and loss of life in both states. Volunteers are now on the ground and working alongside…
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Texas Flash Flooding Press Kit
Press Releases Fact Sheets & Bios Photos B-roll Texas Flash Flooding Samaritan's Purse deployed disaster response teams to Central Texas after a historic flash flood event killed more than 80 people. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing with dozens more missing. Torrential rainfall early Friday morning caused the Guadalupe River to rise 26 feet in…
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Press Release Samaritan’s Purse Deploys To Central Texas After Catastrophic Flash Floods Claim 80+ Lives
Samaritan's Purse Deploys To Central Texas After Catastrophic Flash Floods Claim 80+ Lives BOONE, N.C., July 7, 2025—Samaritan's Purse deployed disaster response teams to Central Texas after a historic flash flood event killed more than 80 people. Search and rescue efforts are ongoing with dozens more missing. Torrential rainfall early Friday morning caused the Guadalupe River…
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Gaza Relief Press Kit
Press Releases Fact Sheets & Bios Photos B-roll Gaza Relief Press Kit Since July 26, Samaritan’s Purse has sent multiple relief flights to help suffering families in Gaza—using both their 757 and DC-8 cargo planes—to deliver hundreds of thousands of pounds of ready-to-use supplemental food (RUSF). These nutrient-rich, peanut-based pouches, provided by MANA Nutrition in…
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Hurricane Melissa Response Press Kit
Press Releases Fact Sheets & Bios B-roll Photos Hurricane Melissa Response Samaritan’s Purse is responding to Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica and has deployed disaster relief specialists, critical supplies, and aircraft to the island nation. The Category 5 storm is the strongest ever to strike the island, leaving widespread devastation in its wake. Our teams have…
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Press Release: Franklin Graham Announces 13th Samaritan’s Purse Relief Flight for Gaza
Franklin Graham Announces 13th Samaritan’s Purse Relief Flight for Gaza Departing from Greensboro, North Carolina, at 9:00 a.m. ET tomorrow morning BOONE, N.C., Oct. 24, 2025—Samaritan’s Purse is sending a major airlift of food and relief supplies to families in Gaza who continue to suffer two years after the start of the war. Franklin Graham,…
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MEDIA ALERT: Samaritan’s Purse Doctors, Nurses Train this Week in North Carolina to Fight Ebola (Press Release)
THURSDAY – FRIDAY: Disaster Response Specialists Participate in North Wilkesboro Training in Preparation for Ebola Deployment BOONE, N.C., Jan. 9, 2018 –Dozens of medical personnel from across the country are converging in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, training to fight the deadly Ebola virus ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Forty medical and nonmedical staff…
Operation Christmas Child
Press Release Operation Christmas Child December 20, 2022
THIS WEEK: Volunteers Send Christmas Joy to Children Overseas Boone, N.C.—Area volunteers are celebrating the collection of gift-filled shoeboxes that will send a message to children around the world: God loves you, and you're not forgotten! Thousands of volunteers contributed to Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan's Purse by packing shoeboxes filled with fun…
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Meet the People of Guidan Gado
Auta’s skin is dark and taut with valleys of worry and determination etched into her forehead. She is 58, and her husband died three decades ago. She sits on a small rock outside her home in a village in Niger, West Africa, and holds a wiggly granddaughter as she speaks. Around her, she sees a…
