{"id":38488,"date":"2014-08-21T11:31:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.samaritanspurse.org\/?p=38488"},"modified":"2014-08-21T11:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:36:42","slug":"statement-from-franklin-graham-president-samaritans-purse-08-21-14-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/our-ministry\/statement-from-franklin-graham-president-samaritans-purse-08-21-14-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from Franklin Graham, President, Samaritan&#8217;s Purse 08-21-14 (Press Release)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BOONE, NC, August 21, 2014<\/strong> \u2014 The following is a statement from Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan&#8217;s Purse:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I join all of our Samaritan\u2019s Purse team around the world in giving thanks to God as we celebrate Dr. Kent Brantly\u2019s recovery from Ebola and release from the hospital. Over the past few weeks I have marveled at Dr. Brantly\u2019s courageous spirit as he has fought this horrible virus with the help of the highly competent and caring staff at Emory University Hospital. His faithfulness to God and compassion for the people of Africa have been an example to us all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that Dr. Brantly and his wonderful family would ask that you please remember and pray for those in Africa battling, treating and suffering from Ebola. Those who have given up the comforts of home to serve the suffering and the less fortunate<br \/>\nare in many ways just beginning this battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have more than 350 staff in Liberia, and others will soon be joining them, so please pray for those who have served with Dr.Brantly &#8211; along with the other doctors, aid workers and organizations that are at this very moment desperately trying to<br \/>\nstop Ebola from taking any more lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/SP-Graham-Stmt-82114.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"\/es\/our-ministry\/newsroom\/\" target=\"\" class=\"sc-button lightblue-button left-button\"><span>RETURN TO NEWSROOM<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOONE, NC, August 21, 2014 \u2014 The following is a statement from Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan&#8217;s Purse: \u201cToday I join all of our Samaritan\u2019s Purse team around the world in giving thanks to God as we celebrate Dr. Kent Brantly\u2019s recovery from Ebola and release from the hospital. Over the past few weeks I [&#038;hellip<\/p>","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-ministry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38492,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38488\/revisions\/38492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samaritanspurse.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}