Graham family responds to global crackdown on Christians with $1.3M defense fund and urgent call to action
2025-07-31 02:09:34
Exclusive: While Christians around the world face legal and cultural threats to escalate to express their faith, the Graham family intensifies efforts to defend freedom of expression and religion through financial support and public advocacy.
The BGEA Evangelical Association has launched a new 1.3 million dollar legal defense fund to help Christians and churches throughout Europe who are transferred to the court because of their biblical beliefs.
At the same time, Sisi Graham LynchFranklin’s daughter Graham and the granddaughter of the late priest Billy Graham urges believers to remain silent in the face of increased hostility, including in the United States.
“We preach a message from the love of God, but when we called it a small group of activists in the UK hate – we were canceled,” Franklin Graham Tell Fox News Digital. “Our ads were removed from buses and the number of places that dropped our events. We have stood on our land and challenged decisions in court. Although it took seven years, all the nine legal conflicts have been resolved in our favor.”
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After these victories, BGEA created the Billy Graham Defense Fund, made at 500,000 pounds (about $ 678,000) from the court settlement. The Samaritan portfolio, which is also led by Graham, contributed an additional amount of 500,000 pounds, thus reaching an average of one million pounds, or about 1.3 million dollars.
“We have taken the damage that we won through the cases of the BGEA court in the United Kingdom, and we put these funds in the new Billy Graham defense fund -the new” War Fund “to help other Christians in Europe who are threatened or intimidated in silence and not expressing their faith,” Graham said.
He added that the issue is not limited to other countries.
“The silence of Christians does not only happen in other countries,” he said. “BGEA and Samaritan portfolio also participated in many different legal cases that affect Freedom of believers To live outside their faith here in the United States.
Between 2017 and 2024, the BGEA and Samaritan portfolio presented 20 summaries in religious freedom issues, including coach Joe Kennedy, Jack PhilipsAnd Baronelle Stutzman, all of which were heard by the US Supreme Court.
“We want the Americans who stand on the beliefs of the Bible in the court to know that we are with them – they are not alone in this battle,” said Graham. ))
Sisi Graham Lynch said she hoped that the defense fund will be a practical source and strength of the symbol for believers who face public pressure and legal revenge. “You can be canceled to talk about the truth,” she said. “But every time you choose to fight this battle, you help build a stronger basis for other people of belief in standing.”
She added, “There is no more precious and important human freedom than freedom of expression and religion.” “We must work to maintain the right to declare the Bible here in the United States and the United Kingdom – because the risks are very high so that they cannot be silent.”
Lynch shared a series of interviews exclusively with the Fox News Digital registration during the European Conference on Evangelization, a gathering in Berlin hosted by the Billy Graham Evangelical Society. The event collected more than 1,000 Christian leaders from 55 countries and a region.
She said that Christians all over the world, including in the United States, are increasingly pressure to suppress their beliefs.
“My family personally knows the violent reaction that comes when it takes a position for the Gospel,” Lynch said. “This may come at a high cost, but I want people to know how strong their voice is when they participate without fear of good news to Jesus Christ.”
She added: “We are witnessing many cases in the United States, where Christians are dragged into the courtroom if they share their beliefs at the workplace, at school, or in sports teams.” “If you are interested in preserving religious freedom and freedom of expression for the next generation, we all need attention.”
Among these lynch was the interview Päivi räsänen, the Finnish member in Parliament. Räsänen lynch told her that she would be tried again to get a 2019 tweet, quoting Roman 1 of the Bible. It was acquitted twice in the lower courts, but the Finnish prosecutors have resumed, and they sent the case to the country’s Supreme Court.
“The police gave me the possibility to give up what I believe in,” Renin said. I said, “I will not apologize for what the Apostle Paul said. It is the word of God, it is not only my opinion. “
And it warned that even unclean judicial prosecutions could lead to a broader effect. She said: “If we start monitoring ourselves, the more restricted it becomes more spaced for the use of these rights,” she said. “The biggest threat to these rights is self -censorship.”
Christine WagnerThe President and CEO of Alliancy Defense Freedom (ADF) also spoke with lynch. ADF has represented customers in the Supreme Court in the United States multiple religious freedom, including the Cakeshop Committee against Colorado Civil Rights. The organization also took international cases that include silent prayer arrests in the United Kingdom and concerned with blasphemy in Nigeria.
“All over the world, we see an increasing wave of censorship,” Wagner said. “These are the rights of God. We have to defend them and protect those rights-knowing that they lead to the prosperity of man and the prosperity of the Bible.”
The British theology told Dr. Amy Uring, who studied at Oxford University, Lynch that she sees the starvation of the truth among young people in the West despite the increase in retreat from public faith.
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She said: “I have been in service for more than 25 years and I did not know a moment like that we were, in the West … for the sake of the truth, for the sake of the Bible.” “Grievance and anger, the victim’s culture and identity policy is not the solution to your anger – Jesus.”
Lynch said her goal is to provide the Americans with a broader understanding of the global threats of religious freedom and encourage them not to decline. “Without fear with Sisi Graham Lynch,” it hosts.
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