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Rev. Franklin Graham begins tour of America’s ‘overwhelmed’ southern border states: ‘People need hope’
FIRST ON FOX: Rev. Franklin Graham and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association kicked off a 10-stop, 1,500-mile tour of America’s southern border this weekend, aiming to bring a “life-changing message of hope” to the struggling residents of border towns in Texas, Arizona and California.
The God Loves You Frontera Tour began in Brownsville, Texas, on Saturday, Fox News Digital was told via original statements and a press release from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association late on Saturday.
Graham is president and CEO of the group. The Spanish word frontera means border.
“We are coming to the southern border because it is one of the neediest areas of our country at this time, and people need to hear a message of hope,” said Graham in comments to Fox News Digital.
The border area, he said, “is overwhelmed.”
“Everyone along the border is overwhelmed — the churches, the law enforcement agencies, the residents, those there trying to help, as well as the people coming into our country,” said Graham.
“There are a lot of hungry hearts and hurting people, so I’m coming to the border to tell everyone about God’s Son, Jesus Christ, and how He can make a difference in our lives if we put our faith and our trust in Him.”
Steve Dorman, pastor of First Baptist Church in Brownsville, said his city is one of the poorest in the United States.
Brownsville “is quite transitory since it is located on the Texas-Mexico border,” Dorman said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.
“We want everyone in this community to know that God is always with them and loves them, and the Gospel can be a stabilizing force to help them in their lives.”
Throughout the tour, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said it will partner with over 1,000 churches in an effort to “reach their communities with a message of God’s love.”
The planned events will feature a message from Graham, plus live music — and will serve to “offer hope to the hopeless, purpose to the lost and redemption to the broken,” said Abraham Moreno, pastor of Calvary Chapel in McAllen in comments shared with Fox News Digital.
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McAllen is the second stop on Graham’s tour.
The message of the tour is one that “heals wounds, restores broken lives and provides a way for people to experience a personal relationship with God’s Son, Jesus Christ,” said Moreno.
“Tonight I want you to know that you can have a personal relationship with God through faith in His Son Jesus Christ.”
Speaking on Saturday, Graham told the assembled crowd from the stage, “Tonight I want you to know that you can have a personal relationship with God through faith in His Son Jesus Christ.”
He also said, “If you don’t remember anything else, remember this: God loves you.”
Graham also told the crowd, “The Bible says that God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.”
He said, “Jesus came to save sinners. He bled and died on a cross for you. He went to the grave. He took your sins to the grave, but on the third day He rose to life.” Graham continued.
“Your sins can be forgiven tonight, you can be set free — but you’ve got to come His way and that’s through Jesus Christ.”
Graham addressed the hopelessness that many people feel right now.
“Maybe you feel hopeless tonight. Maybe you’ve come here hoping that something could happen that could change your life,” he said.
He added, “There’s no hope except Jesus Christ.”
The tour started at the Gulf of Mexico and will go all the way to the Pacific, where it will end in Chula Vista, California, said the organization.
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In exclusive comments to Fox News Digital, Rev. Graham addressed the latest incident of migrant crime in this country that has grabbed national attention.
Laken Riley, a college nursing student, was found dead several days ago on the campus of the University of Georgia.
On Friday, 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra was charged with murder. Ibarra is a Venezuelan national who crossed illegally into El Paso, Texas, in Sept. 2022 and was released into the U.S. via parole, three ICE & DHS sources told Fox News.
“My heart and prayers go out to the family in Georgia who lost their daughter in this senseless killing.”
“Many tragic things are happening to the citizens of our country as well as [to] the migrants along the border because of our politicians’ failure to enforce the law,” Graham told Fox News Digital.
“My heart and prayers go out to the family in Georgia who lost their daughter in this senseless killing.”
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The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association was founded in 1950 by evangelist Billy Graham.
It works to “share the Good News of Jesus Christ around the world,” says its website.
Franklin Graham was appointed CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in 2000. He was named its president the following year.
Fox News Digital’s Audrey Conklin, Michael Ruiz and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed reporting.
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Julian Assange trial in London could decide whether the WikiLeaks founder is extradited to the US
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces a court hearing in London that could end with him being sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges, or provide him with another chance to appeal his extradition.
- The U.S. has assured judges that Assange’s rights would be protected and that he would not face the death penalty in the event of extradition, but Assange’s legal team argues they are not good enough to rely on.
- Assange was indicted on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over his website’s publication of classified U.S. documents almost 15 years ago.
Julian Assange faced a key hearing Monday in the High Court in London that could end with him being sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges, or could provide him another chance to appeal his extradition.
The WikiLeaks founder, who has spent the past five years in a British prison, was not in court to hear his fate being debated. He did not attend for health reasons, his lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said.
The outcome of the hearing will depend on how much weight judges give to assurances U.S. officials have provided that Assange’s rights won’t be trampled if he goes on trial.
In March, two judges rejected the bulk of Assange’s arguments but said he could take his case to the Court of Appeal unless the U.S. guaranteed he would not face the death penalty if extradited and would have the same free speech protections as a U.S. citizen.
The court said that if Assange, who is an Australian citizen, couldn’t rely on the First Amendment then it was arguable his extradition would be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, which also provides free speech and media protections.
The U.S. has provided those reassurances, though Assange’s legal team and supporters argue they are not good enough to rely on to send him to the U.S. federal court system.
The U.S. said Assange could seek to rely on the rights and protections of the First Amendment but that a decision on that would ultimately be up to a judge. In the past, the U.S. said it would argue at trial that Assange is not entitled to the constitutional protection because he is not a U.S. citizen.
“The U.S. has limited itself to blatant weasel words claiming that Julian can ‘seek to raise’ the First Amendment if extradited,” his wife, Stella Assange, said. “The diplomatic note does nothing to relieve our family’s extreme distress about his future — his grim expectation of spending the rest of his life in isolation in U.S. prison for publishing award-winning journalism.”
Assange, 52, has been indicted on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over his website’s publication of a trove of classified U.S. documents almost 15 years ago. American prosecutors allege that Assange encouraged and helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to steal diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks published.
Commuters emerging from a Tube stop near the courthouse couldn’t miss a large sign bearing Assange’s photo and the words, “Publishing is not a crime. War crimes are.” Scores of supporters gathered outside the neo-Gothic Royal Courts of Justice chanting “Free Julian Assange” and “Press freedom, Assange freedom.”
Some held a large white banner aimed at President Joe Biden, exhorting: “Let him go Joe.”
Assange’s lawyers say he could face up to 175 years in prison if convicted, though American authorities have said any sentence would likely be much shorter.
Assange’s family and supporters say his physical and mental health have suffered during more than a decade of legal battles, which includes seven years spent inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London from 2012 until 2019. He has spent the past five years in a British high-security prison.
Assange’s lawyers argued in February that he was a journalist who exposed U.S. military wrongdoing in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sending him to the U.S., they said, would expose him to a politically motivated prosecution and risk a “flagrant denial of justice.”
The U.S. government says Assange’s actions went way beyond those of a journalist gathering information, amounting to an attempt to solicit, steal and indiscriminately publish classified government documents.
If Assange prevails Monday, it would set the stage for an appeal process likely to extend what has already been a long legal saga.
If the court accepts the word of the U.S., it would mark the end of Assange’s legal challenges in the U.K., though it’s unclear what would immediately follow.
His legal team is prepared to ask the European Court of Human Rights to intervene. But his supporters fear Assange could be transferred before the court in Strasbourg, France, could halt his removal.
Judges Victoria Sharp and Jeremy Johnson may also postpone issuing a decision.
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If Assange loses in court, he still may have another shot at freedom.
Biden said last month that he was considering a request from Australia to drop the case and let Assange return to his home country.
Officials provided no other details but Stella Assange said it was “a good sign” and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the comment was encouraging.
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