Franklin Graham
During Gaza war, evangelicals have become Israel’s best friend
By Bob Smietana and Yonat Shimron — February 28, 2024
(RNS) — As criticism against Israel mounts and pressure for a ceasefire rises, Israeli leaders are working to shore up evangelical support.
Franklin Graham’s border tour draws 20,000 signers demanding its cancelation
By Yonat Shimron — January 29, 2024
(RNS) — Critics are calling the 10-city tour 'hypocritical' and denouncing what they say are Graham's 'anti-immigrant' views.
Franklin Graham tours devastation in Israel, commits to helping rebuild
By Yonat Shimron — November 20, 2023
(RNS) — Israel has been the beneficiary of millions of dollars from Christian charities and a flood of volunteers. Samaritan's Purse is among them.
Samaritan’s Purse sends 52-bed field hospital to Antakya, Turkey
By Yonat Shimron — February 9, 2023
(RNS) — The organization, run by founder and president the Rev. Franklin Graham, said it will also send more than 100 medical and technical staff to the ravaged region.
How come evangelical leaders are cool toward Trump?
By Mark Silk — January 25, 2023
(RNS) — They’re waiting on the people in the pews.
After Roe, 50th March for Life a turning point for national, state abortion protests
By Adelle M. Banks and Jack Jenkins — January 19, 2023
(RNS) — Since last summer’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, much of the focus of the abortion fight has moved to statehouses.
Trump chides onetime evangelical supporters who haven’t endorsed him
By Jack Jenkins — January 17, 2023
(RNS) — ‘There’s great disloyalty in the world of politics, and that’s a sign of disloyalty,’ Trump said.
Leave Amy Grant alone
By Tyler Huckabee — December 22, 2022
(RNS) — There is nothing left to kick her out of. She’s free.
From shoeboxes to war zones: How Samaritan’s Purse became a $1 billion humanitarian aid powerhouse
By Yonat Shimron and Bob Smietana — September 9, 2022
NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (RNS) — Now one of the largest US nonprofits, its growth has come largely through frontline work in public health crises and natural disasters around the world.
Evangelical group releases climate change report, urges a biblical mandate for action
By Jack Jenkins — August 29, 2022
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We worship God by caring for creation,’ the report reads.
John MacArthur and the dangers of biblical literalism
By Jonathan Merritt — July 19, 2022
(RNS) — Christians must accept that the only way to take the Bible seriously is to stop taking every word literally.
Religious right groups’ tax-status changes demean both church and state
By Jacob Lupfer — July 13, 2022
(RNS) — No honest person would call the political organization a church.
War in Ukraine is testing some American evangelicals’ support for Putin as a leader of conservative values
By Melani McAlister — April 11, 2022
(The Conversation) — Vladimir Putin has long been a favorite with many American evangelicals who praised his support for conservative values – and some of them still can’t break up with him.
Franklin Graham writes to Putin, Zelenskyy to ask for a cease-fire during Holy Week
By Yonat Shimron — March 31, 2022
(RNS) — Samaritan’s Purse, Graham’s humanitarian relief organization, is pushing farther east and plans to open a second emergency field hospital in Ukraine by this weekend.
Franklin Graham, Russia and the ‘Moralist International’
By Mark Silk — March 21, 2022
(RNS) — The war in Ukraine has made strange bedfellows of the international religious right.
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