{"id":1347001,"date":"2022-02-27T10:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1347001"},"modified":"2022-02-27T10:09:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T15:09:51","slug":"rev-franklin-graham-calls-for-day-of-prayer-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rev-franklin-graham-calls-for-day-of-prayer-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Franklin Graham Calls for Day of Prayer for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frev-franklin-graham-calls-for-day-of-prayer-for-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1347001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Celebrated evangelical leader Franklin Graham has appealed for Sunday to be a day of prayer for the people of Ukraine and for an end to its \u201cdeadly conflict\u201d with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to join others in calling for a special day of prayer for the people of Ukraine,\u201d Rev. Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FranklinGraham\/posts\/496146788547587\">wrote<\/a> on Facebook early Sunday to his nearly 10 million followers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2014Sunday, February 27\u2014I hope that tens of thousands of churches and millions of families around the world will stand together in prayer, asking Almighty God to work in the hearts of leaders and bring an end to this deadly conflict,\u201d Graham added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20036282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238758479.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20036282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238758479-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>People attend a prayer vigil at The Cathedral of the Holy Family in central London, on February 25, 2022 in reaction to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. (TOLGA AKMEN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s lift up in prayer those who are enduring these dark days filled with uncertainty, fear, hardship, loss, and suffering,\u201d he continued. \u201cMay they know the comfort, presence, peace, and protection of God who is a \u2018refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble\u2019 (Psalm 46:1).\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Prior to last week\u2019s Russian invasion of Ukraine, Rev. Graham had sent out a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Franklin_Graham\/status\/1494796401779351558\">message<\/a> imploring prayers for Russian president Vladimir Putin, so that God might intervene to prevent the outbreak of war.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20036330\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1372732618.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20036330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1372732618-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ivan Pelekhach and wife Kornelia Panchuk pray during a service held by Reverend Simon Ckuj at St Andrew\u2019s Ukrainian Catholic Church, Lidcombe on February 25, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. (Lisa Maree Williams\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cPray for President Putin today,\u201d Graham wrote on Twitter on February 18. \u201cThis may sound like a strange request, but we need to pray that God would work in his heart so that war could be avoided at all cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay God give wisdom to the leaders involved in these talks &#038; negotiations, as well as those advising them,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrated evangelical leader Franklin Graham has appealed for Sunday to be a day of prayer for the people of Ukraine and for an end to its \u201cdeadly conflict\u201d with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}