“Just because we give medical care to ISIS fighters doesn’t mean I would want to allow any one of them to immigrate to the United States. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need to make the borders of our own country secure.” “Like the Good Samaritan Jesus told about in the Bible, we help those who have been hurt along life’s road. “We are working to help thousands of refugees every day in different countries,” Graham described the work of Samaritan’s Purse. 11 on Facebook that as head of a humanitarian organization working in more than 100 countries, including most on the banned list, “I feel I have something to say about this issue.” Graham continued to defend the Trump travel ban on social media, posting Feb. 10-12 Festival of Hope evangelistic rally in San Juan, terming the preacher’s endorsement of Trump’s anti-immigration stance “contrary to the values of the Kingdom.” The Baptist Churches of Puerto Rico responded by withdrawing endorsement for Graham’s Feb. Graham recently came under criticism for defending President Trump’s executive order barring citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for 90 days and suspending the admission of all refugees for 120 days subsequently blocked by federal courts. He answered the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people across this land who had been praying for this country.” “I don’t have a stack of emails to read to you, but I have an opinion: I believe it was God. “I don’t have any scientific information,” Graham reportedly told a crowd at Trump’s final “thank you” rally in Mobile, Ala. Graham, son of 98-year-old retired evangelist Billy Graham, said in December he didn’t believe it was the Russians who intervened in Trump’s election but God. We’ve been given a second chance, and Christians, we’ve got to stand up and we’ve got to get it right.” I believe that God was giving us a second chance. “I believe that we experienced divine intervention last November. “He did not endorse, but what he did do in 2016 was stage massive prayer gatherings at every single state capital in the country,” Starnes said. “I would not discount the power of what Franklin Graham did,” said Starnes, recognized by pollster George Barna as one of the top 10 media influencers for conservative evangelicals in the 2016 presidential election. Starnes said he believes Graham’s message “resonated with Christians across the country” as the evangelist shared it with an estimated 230,000 people during his Decision America Tour urging voters to “pray, vote and engage in the political process” during the summer and fall. “Losing the Supreme Court, not just for an election cycle but for generations, that’s how much was at stake here.”
“He told me we were at a moral tipping point, and I’m not sure if people understand what was literally at stake and how close we were to losing the country, to losing the culture, if Hillary Clinton had won,” said Starnes, whose previous books include God Less America published in 2014. Starnes, a Fox News personality for more than a decade who early in his career wrote for the Southern Baptist Convention news service Baptist Press, said that he interviewed the head of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse for his new book The Deplorables’ Guide to Making America Great Again on Thursday’s installment of Stand in the Gap Today.
Fox News personality Todd Starnes attributed Donald Trump’s election to “divine intervention” aided by prayer rallies led by evangelist Franklin Graham in an American Pastor’s Network radio interview Feb.
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