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 […]
White House relations: Religious right eyes Biden warily after Trump’s good favour
ELANA SCHOR, of The Associated Press, reports on how some of Trump’s key backers among conservative evangelical Christians are approaching the election of Joe Biden as the next president with scepticism, but not antagonism…
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, […]
In the US, Notre Dame president has virus. Senator leaves Atlanta faith conference to quarantine
RNS At least two people in addition to President Trump who attended a ceremony last Saturday, 26th September, in the White House Rose Garden to present Judge Amy Coney Barrett as Trump’s Supreme Court nominee have been infected with the coronavirus. Rev John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame University, announced on Friday that he has […]
Faith leaders offer prayers as President Trump tests positive for COVID-19
RNS As news of President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test spread, prayers began flowing for his recovery and for the recovery of First Lady Melania Trump. Among the first to pray: former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump’s rival in the current presidential race. President Trump tweeted the news of his positive test shortly after midnight […]
Franklin Graham borrows a tactic from the left with his Saturday prayer march
RNS Like his late father, Billy Graham, Franklin Graham is not a marcher. The Graham family formula has always focused on stadium-sized evangelistic revivals. But ahead of the presidential election, the evangelical preacher is borrowing a tactic used by civil rights leaders and Black Lives Matter protesters. He is organising a mass prayer march on […]
His Republican National Convention prayer was neutral, but Franklin Graham says the choice for president is not
RNS Franklin Graham offered a short and straight-forward Protestant prayer for the country on the last night of the Republican National Convention. But in an interview with RNS on Friday, he made no bones about who he hopes the country will elect come November. Evangelical leader Franklin Graham tapes his prayer for the fourth day […]
“We’ve got to move on” – Rev Franklin Graham
New York City, USAP The Associated Press sat down to talk with Rev Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, during his recent visit to New York, where his Christian relief charity Samaritan’s Purse had operated a Central Park field hospital to treat coronavirus patients. Rev Franklin Graham, president and CEO […]
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 […]
Samaritan’s Purse New York City field hospital to close as virus cases drop in NYC
RNS The field hospital erected by the evangelical humanitarian relief organisation Samaritan’s Purse in New York City’s Central Park will shut down after it releases its last patient – likely on Friday, 8th May. The 68 bed tent hospital in Central Park’s East Meadow, run in partnership with the nearby Mount Sinai Hospital, was expected […]