Samaritan’s Purse sends 52-bed field hospital to Antakya, Turkey
United StatesRNS In the wake of what may be Turkey’s deadliest earthquake, Samaritan’s Purse, the Christian humanitarian relief organization, announced it would send a 52-bed emergency field hospital to the city of Antakya, historically known as Antioch. The organisation, run by founder and president Rev Franklin Graham, said it will also send more than 100 […]
Fighting COVID: Samaritan’s Purse field hospitals much in demand as US coronavirus case counts rise
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports from North Carolina where Samaritan’s Purse have set up a field hospital in response to the growing coronavirus crisis in the US…
In the US, Samaritan’s Purse to open a North Carolina field hospital for COVID-19 patients
RNS Seven months after closing its COVID-19 field hospital in New York City’s Central Park, Samaritan’s Purse is opening another one to treat overflow patients suffering from the coronavirus in western North Carolina. The evangelical humanitarian relief organisation headed by Franklin Graham will open a scaled-down 30-bed field hospital to help five small hospitals in […]
Samaritan’s Purse to set up coronavirus field hospital in the Bahamas
RNS First the tents went up in Cremona, Italy. Then New York City. And now in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. Supplies destined for the Bahamas are loaded onto the Samaritan’s Purse DC-8 airplane on 14th October, in Greensboro, North Carolina. PICTURE: Courtesy of Samaritan’s Purse It’s been a busy year for Samaritan’s Purse, […]
Franklin Graham: No interest in federal money meant for WHO
New York CityAP Rev Franklin Graham says his Christian relief charity has no interest in receiving any of the funding President Donald Trump has withheld from the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus. Samaritan’s Purse, Graham’s international relief charity, has operated a field hospital for coronavirus patients in New York’s Central Park […]
Franklin Graham on his Central Park field hospital: “We don’t discriminate. Period.”
RNS It was a culture clash waiting to happen. Almost as soon as Samaritan’s Purse assembled a 68 bed field hospital in Central Park’s famed East Meadow, New Yorkers sounded the alarm about the evangelical humanitarian relief organisation headed by Franklin Graham. Workers prepare a 68 bed Samaritan’s Purse emergency field hospital specially equipped with […]
Samaritan’s Purse sets up emergency field hospital in New York’s Central Park
RNS A series of white tents went up in New York’s Central Park last weekend as workers assembled a 68 bed emergency field hospital for people infected with the coronavirus. The field hospital, which is expected to open Tuesday (31st March), will allow Mount Sinai Hospital on 98th Street and Fifth Avenue – just across […]
As religious groups weigh virus response, Samaritan’s Purse donates a field hospital
RNS A DC-8 aircraft carrying an emergency field hospital and a team of 32 technicians and medical personnel took off from Greensboro, North Carolina, on Tuesday for Cremona, Italy, to set up a triage operation outside a hospital there. The massive shipment is a donation from Samaritan’s Purse, the evangelical humanitarian relief organisation headed by […]