Glenn Beck, Samaritan's Purse helping Christians 'marked for death' flee Afghanistan
By: Ryan Foley. Christian Post Reporter
The sheer evil that is our federal regime, state department, and Biden himself knows no bounds in their opposition to getting these Afghan Christian families out of the country. The Taliban is especially vicious in dealing with those in country who are not Muslim, and worse of all toward converted Christians. That our government would even pressure other nations to not accept these people NGO’s are trying to get out is evidence of its dystopian nature. Thank God for Nazarene, Samaritan’s Purse, and other groups helping to get people out of harms way over there even though our own government is obstructing them and we have to resort to seeking unknown other governments help and keep them secret from our own.
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UPDATE AUG. 28 at 5 P.M. ET: Army Maj. Gen. William Taylor said at the Defense Department press briefing on Afghanistan Friday that there was only one suicide bombing attack in Kabul Thursday and not two, as previously reported.
“I can confirm for you that we do not believe that there was a second explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, that it was one suicide bomber. We are not sure how that report was provided incorrectly. But we do know, it's not any surprise, that in the confusion of very dynamic events, like this, can cause information sometimes to become misreported,” Taylor said at the Pentagon.
Original report:
As concerns grow over the Biden administration's ability to evacuate Americans ahead of the planned military withdrawal from Afghanistan, nonprofit organizations are working to assist U.S. citizens and Afghans seeking to flee the nation that's been overrun by the Taliban.
With less than a week until the Aug. 31 deadline for withdrawal of remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the federal government is working to evacuate American citizens and Afghans who risk being tortured and executed by the Taliban, a terrorist organization.
The State Department reported Wednesday that no more than 1,500 American citizens seeking to leave Afghanistan remain there.
Efforts to bring American citizens and Afghans to safety continue after two explosions in Kabul killed 13 Marines and one Navy Corpsman on Thursday. The Department of Defense attributed the attacks to the terrorist group ISIS-K, a local affiliate of the terrorist group ISIS.
On “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Thursday, Fox News opinion host Tucker Carlson profiled The Nazarene Fund, a charity founded by conservative radio host Glenn Beck, as one of a small number of groups that have “headed to Afghanistan and the region to help evacuate people who are trapped there because the Biden administration just isn’t doing that very effectively.”
In an interview with Carlson, Beck elaborated on the progress his organization has made in evacuating American citizens and vulnerable Afghans from the country: “We have pulled out 5,100 people, Christians, women, children and put them on planes.”
Beck explained that the Nazarene Fund flies Afghan refugees to three nearby countries that requested to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation and terrorist attacks. According to Beck, “The State Department has blocked us every step of the way. … The State Department and the White House have been the biggest problem.”
He also accused the State Department of putting about 500 refugees, primarily women and children, in harm’s way: “We had them inside of the airport today and one military official … ordered them to go back on the other side of the gate. I have pictures of them this morning pleading to get back through the gate and then I have pictures of blood and body parts and nothing but death in that same area. We believe that our State Department is directly responsible for what we believe were some of these people. I don’t know how many survived.”
“An ambassador was called in Macedonia last night and [was] told not to accept any of these people as we were trying to get them off of the tarmac here to keep the airport flowing and getting these Christians out,” he added.
Beck shared on his radio show earlier this week and with Carlson Thursday night that “Copeland Ministries has let me borrow their jet. … We’re going someplace else to open up two countries, and I don’t even want to say who they are because I’m afraid our State Department will call them and threaten them.”
Beck warned of the dangers Christians face in Afghanistan with the Taliban in control, noting that they “are marked not just for death but to be set on fire alive because they’re converted Christians.” He characterized the federal government’s actions regarding Afghan refugees as “out and out evil.”
As of Tuesday, the Nazarene Fund had raised more than $30 million. In an Instagram post , Beck stressed that “I am personally paying for my and my teams' expenses with air travel courtesy of @copelandnetwork - all donated money goes to rescue those in Afghanistan and other persecuted Christians.”
Samaritan’s Purse, a charity led by evangelist Franklin Graham, has also joined the evacuation effort, working in partnership with “organizations on the ground” to help “desperate people fleeing Afghanistan.” In a statement released Monday, the nonprofit organization announced: “We have been able to sponsor flights that have brought hundreds to safety one of our partners made three trips that brought out 700 people in one day! We have also supported the evacuation of 80 missionary families via land routes.”
In addition, Samaritan’s Purse has deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team to the region to help evacuees once they flee the country. The organization is seeking “hygiene items” as well as “comfort items and compassionate care” for “traumatized children” and all “those who have fled with just the clothes on their backs.”
Samaritan’s Purse warned that the Taliban are “Islamic extremists” who are “poised to force Afghanistan back into a dark and brutal state where Christians, anyone who [has] associated with Americans, women, and others face severe persecution and death.”
The organization added that the leader of the underground church ministering to Christians in Afghanistan provided a “first-hand ground report” on the situation in the country, detailing how “The Taliban has a hit list of known Christians they are targeting to pursue and kill.”
During a press briefing with Thursday night hours after the terrorist attacks in Kabul, President Joe Biden confirmed that the U.S. has indeed given the Taliban a list of Afghan allies, and U.S. citizens and green card holders they want to be evacuated, a move that some defense experts fear will lead to the torture and execution of many Afghans.
As The Christian Post previously reported , Victor Marx, the CEO of the nonprofit organization All Things Possible, is working to bring an Afghan family of eight to the U.S.
Marx told CP that the family of converts to Christianity also belongs to “an ethnic tribe that is loathed by the Taliban.” He was first alerted to the family’s plight when the sister of the family’s matriarch, an Afghanistan native whose American husband once worked with him, left him a frantic voicemail asserting that they were in danger.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
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As of Tuesday, the Nazarene Fund had raised more than $30 million. In an Instagram post , Beck stressed that “I am personally paying for my and my teams' expenses with air travel courtesy of @copelandnetwork - all donated money goes to rescue those in Afghanistan and other persecuted Christians.”
Samaritan’s Purse, a charity led by evangelist Franklin Graham, has also joined the evacuation effort, working in partnership with “organizations on the ground” to help “desperate people fleeing Afghanistan.” In a statement released Monday, the nonprofit organization announced: “We have been able to sponsor flights that have brought hundreds to safety — one of our partners made three trips that brought out 700 people in one day! We have also supported the evacuation of 80 missionary families via land routes.”
In addition, Samaritan’s Purse has deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team to the region to help evacuees once they flee the country. The organization is seeking “hygiene items” as well as “comfort items and compassionate care” for “traumatized children” and all “those who have fled with just the clothes on their backs.”
Samaritan’s Purse warned that the Taliban are “Islamic extremists” who are “poised to force Afghanistan back into a dark and brutal state where Christians, anyone who [has] associated with Americans, women, and others face severe persecution and death.”
The organization added that the leader of the underground church ministering to Christians in Afghanistan provided a “first-hand ground report” on the situation in the country, detailing how “The Taliban has a hit list of known Christians they are targeting to pursue and kill.”
During a press briefing with Thursday night hours after the terrorist attacks in Kabul, President Joe Biden confirmed that the U.S. has indeed given the Taliban a list of Afghan allies, and U.S. citizens and green card holders they want to be evacuated, a move that some defense experts fear will lead to the torture and execution of many Afghans.
As The Christian Post previously reported , Victor Marx, the CEO of the nonprofit organization All Things Possible, is working to bring an Afghan family of eight to the U.S.
Marx told CP that the family of converts to Christianity also belongs to “an ethnic tribe that is loathed by the Taliban.”
keep all religious extremists from afghanistan out of the US.
In Afghanistan it’s the Taliban and ISIS that are the religious extremists.
actually I just want thumpers able to speak english if they're being persecuted here. /s
Try to stay on topic here. The seed is about a variety of Christian ministries going into Afghanistan to get believers out of the country by land or by air to other countries and the sadness over obstacles our own dystopian regime are putting in our way
No one, at this point should be trying to get into Afghanistan. Period.
There are and have always been between 3,000 to 4,000 Afghan Christians and Jews practicing in secret.
All of the recognized Christian Afghan communities are outside of Afghanistan.
Glenn Beck is just grandstanding to regain some lost reputation.
hopefully the taliban are resourceful enough to capture those thumpers and ransom their tax exempt organizations for millions, and presto, another rwnj/religious money laundering scam is born.
No, he’s not. In the years between 2002-present there was growth of the Christian church in that country. It was no longer all in secret. Those that are open or converts from Islam have to get out as do those associated with western NGO’s of a religious nature. Beck and the others are not in any way grandstanding. The remaining Church that can will go secret / underground as it has been in other countries in that region as well as China and North Korea.
Not to mention hateful and vindictive…
... since the taliban now controls all of afghan television, I believe a satellite uplink and televised pay per view evangelical torture sessions would be the most lucrative way to go in maximizing the financial returns. /s
Satellite tv, the internet, and short wave radio from far out of country are ways to keep in touch with the underground church. No sarc about it and no money to be made either as that’s not the point here.
The Bible says you reap what you sow.
It doesn’t….
I have found that to be true more often than it's not.
So please be careful!
I didn’t know that the seeded article was about the us government persecuting Christians? Why bring up an off topic subject.
Yes it does. Well said.