(By John Stonestreet, Breakpoint). [Tonight is the] one-night showing of a powerful documentary about faith in the face of a deadly epidemic. If you saw people dying all around you from a plague you didn’t understand and couldn’t control, what would you do? For Samaritan’s Purse staff members faced with the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus…
As the Ebola pandemic was sweeping across West Africa in the spring of 2014, one organization was willing to step up and fully commit its people and resources to provide comfort, compassion, and care to the hurting people of Africa … all in the Name of Jesus. But when the deadly virus infected its own…
From Samaritan’s Purse A 747 cargo jet chartered and stocked by Samaritan’s Purse departs today (10/1/14) from Charlotte bound for Liberia with nearly 100 tons of supplies to fight the deadly Ebola virus. “Behind me is a plane loaded with supplies and equipment to fight Ebola and save the lives of Liberian people,” Samaritan’s Purse…
From Samaritan’s Purse The full text of Dr. Kent Brantly’s statement that he read after being released from Emory University Hospital on Thursday, August 21: “Today is a miraculous day. I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to be reunited with my family. As a medical missionary, I never imagined myself in…
By Ben Brumfield and Jacque Wilson (CNN) — Both Americans who were treated for the Ebola virus have been discharged from the hospital. “Today is a miraculous day,” Dr. Kent Brantly said at a news conference in Atlanta with staff of Emory University Hospital. “I am thrilled to be alive, to be well and to…
By Matt Perman In response to Ann Coulter’s article on the ebola doctor, “Ebola doc’s condition downgraded to idiotic,” one person on Facebook said “If you remain a fan of Ann Coulter after reading this, you are as pathetic as she is.” I understand his strong reaction, and disagree very much with her article, but the…
By Jordan Schachtel Among the two American patients being treated for Ebola virus at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Kent Brantly said Friday (Aug. 8) that he has been “growing stronger every day.” Brantly said that he thanked “God for his mercy as I have wrestled with this terrible disease” in a written…
By Mark A. Taylor Nobody forced Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital last week to accept two patients stricken with the deadly Ebola virus. Instead, Dr. Bruce Ribner, head of the Emory unit treating the sick Americans, welcomed the chance to admit them. Emory, according to Ribner, is one of only four U.S. facilities uniquely equipped to…
By Albert Mohler In an ominous development Wednesday night, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its highest level alert for a response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa, even as reports came in indicating that the crisis may now not be limited to West Africa. Centers for Disease Control Chief Tom Frieden…
By Erin McClam Weak but improving, the second American Ebola patient to arrive on U.S. soil was wheeled into an Atlanta hospital Tuesday by workers in biohazard suits and taken to an isolation unit for treatment. Nancy Writebol, one of two aid workers who contracted the deadly virus in Liberia, was flown from Africa overnight…