From shoeboxes to war zones: How Samaritan’s Purse became a $US1 billion humanitarian aid powerhouse

YONAT SHIMRON and BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, report on how Samaritan’s Purse, one of the largest US non-profits, has grown largely through frontline work in public health crises and natural disasters around the world…
THE INTERVIEW: MARK DEMOSS, CHRISTIAN PR EXECUTIVE

Influential US Christian PR executive Mark DeMoss announced he was closing his business last week. ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, caught up with him…
US PR exec with “all-access pass” to evangelical history, closing firm

RNS After nearly 30 years, a US public relations agency that has acted as a powerful gatekeeper for some of the most prominent Christian faith-based organisations is closing its doors. Mark DeMoss, 56, announced in a letter to friends Tuesday he is closing his eponymous, Atlanta-based firm – which describes itself as the nation’s largest […]
Private funeral and weeklong events planned for Billy Graham

RNS Photographed in Pittsburgh in 1968. PICTURE: Courtesy of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Billy Graham will be buried on 2nd March at the library he established in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a funeral service under a tent similar to the one where the evangelist held his first major revival nearly 70 years ago. The 99-year-old […]