23 CBN post hailed Beck for bringing out far fewer people: “Glenn Beck Finally Able to Rescue 100 Afghan Refugees After Weeks of Obstacles.” The CBN post did not address earlier claims that 7,000 people had been flown to safety. However, we hope you will support our work with your prayers and financial gifts.
Snopes has been waiting for answers from Beck’s two charities since early September.Īccess to MinistryWatch content is free. Snopes also found that Beck used a photo in one of his reports that was used by another group for its flight. The fact-check organization Snopes reported that Beck’s claims can’t be verified. Neither Beck nor The Nazarene Fund nor his other charity, Mercury One, are answering any questions from MinistryWatch or other media outlets. On August 24, the Christian outlet CBN posted an “ incredible update” that praised Beck’s successful fundraising “with no help from the mainstream media” and claimed it had secured “twenty 757’s minimum all lined up, ready to go,” and predicted 7,000 Christians would be flown from Afghanistan within days.īeck called the effort “truly a MIRACLE” and claimed “1200 Christians evacuated and flown to safety” by August 24.īut it has been impossible to independently verify any of Beck’s claims.
In August, Glenn Beck, the conservative Mormon media star and founder of Blaze Media, raised nearly $30 million so his charity, The Nazarene Fund, could rescue people from Afghanistan. Various charities have raised some $50 million to airlift people out of Afghanistan after the American withdrawal, but fundraising has proved far easier than evacuating.