In the US, Franklin Graham unfazed after evangelical base blasts him for encouraging vaccines
RNS As Facebook posts go, it was pretty straightforward. “ I have…been asked if Jesus were physically walking on earth now, would He be an advocate for vaccines,” wrote Franklin Graham in a Facebook post. Graham’s answer? “I would have to say – yes, I think Jesus Christ would advocate for people using vaccines and medicines […]
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, […]
In the US state of Iowa, hard-hit churches and faith-based organisations rally to help out in wake of derecho storm
RNS Pam Schulz has never seen anything like it. Just about every home in the Cedar Rapids area has been impacted by the storms that swept across the Midwest last week with hurricane-force winds, according to Schulz, the executive director of St Mark’s Lutheran Church, a congregation in Marion, Iowa, affiliated with Lutheran Congregations in Mission […]
“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 […]
In the US, opposition to Samaritan’s Purse Central Park field hospital grows
RNS The scene in New York City’s Central Park was a snapshot of the nation’s cultural and religious divide. On Tuesday, a group of LGBTQ activists stood several yards away from the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital on the East Meadow lawn and blasted city and state officials and Mount Sinai Hospital for partnering with the […]
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 […]