Inspiring stories from 2023 that will give you HOPE for 2024



In the face of Bidenomics, non-stop war, illness, and a near non-existent border, it can be hard to feel that you’ve made a difference.

However, Glenn Beck has some good news for his audience: you have actually made a serious difference.

“You might think that you haven’t done anything this year,” Glenn says, noting that his audience is precisely the reason the Nazarene Fund has been able to support so many persecuted people this year.

The Nazarene Fund is currently supporting roughly 125 people monthly inside of Afghanistan with food and life-sustaining supplies. Most of those being supported are widows with children or Christians in hiding.

The fund is also evacuating high-risk individuals from Afghanistan to safe houses in Pakistan, where they wait for final resettlement.

According to Glenn, 22,000 people have been successfully relocated around the world.

One of the biggest successes Glenn has seen is through a prison camp in Syria, called Al-Hol.

The camp is full of about 10,000 Yazidi slaves, and the Nazarene Fund is working tirelessly to free them. So far, 172 have been saved and sent to Australia while 18 have gone to Canada.

But that’s not all.

“We’re reuniting these women with their family members in Iraq, rescuing survivors from human trafficking in Iraq, we’re rescuing families fleeing religious persecution for their Christian faith in Syria, we have safe houses for at-risk Yazidi women and their children of war,” Glenn explains.

The Nazarene Fund has also responded with assistance to partners in Israel, with one chartered flight from Tel Aviv to Nashville for U.S. citizens and Israelis who were survivors of the October 7 attack.

The fund has also partnered with Mercury One to provide funding for the relocation to the U.S. of six Israeli families who were survivors of the attack.

But it doesn’t stop there.

Operation Lego was launched in Nigeria on April 30 and targeted any and all individuals or rings involved with the illicit trade of organ harvesting, human trafficking, child abduction and exploitation, baby factories, and ritual killings.

Six human traffickers have been arrested, and 32 children have been rescued and are now being cared for.

“I just want you to know, there’s never been a commercial radio audience or I think a commercial television audience ever that has done anything like this,” Glenn says. “Thank you. It is an honor to be around you and to serve you.”


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Biden admin stopped planes chartered by Glenn Beck charity from taking off, handed manifest over to Taliban



The U.S. State Department is responsible for grounding and deboarding several planes holding American citizens and Afghan nationals at the Mazar-i-Sharif airport, BlazeTV host Glenn Beck reported on-air during his radio show Tuesday.

What are the details?

The planes — which held at least 100 American citizens and 1,000 Afghan nationals — were chartered by Mercury One and The Nazarene Fund, a charity founded by Beck aimed at facilitating evacuations from Afghanistan amid the U.S. military's withdrawal and the Taliban's takeover of the country.

Over the weekend, news broke that multiple planes had been prevented from taking off after the Taliban refused to grant permission for the departure. But according to Beck, it wasn't the Taliban that initially stopped the planes from exiting the country.

Rather, it was the State Department that refused to grant landing clearance to the planes, preventing them from departing. The department allegedly called off the flights at the last minute, declining to approve the manifest. He added that U.S. officials went on to hand over the manifest to the Taliban.

"They were on the plane, they were on the tarmac, they were [in] the seats ... [and] ready to go" before State Department officials intervened and deboarded the plane, Beck explained Tuesday morning on his radio show. "They were told to go back into the airport and hand everything in to the Taliban.

"They were dismissed from the airport while the State Department works this out with the Taliban," he continued, noting that many of the passengers are now waiting things out in safe houses, "but not all."

"This was like the State Department sending up flares, saying [to the Taliban], 'Hey, look over here,'" he added later.

The radio personality insisted that his team is working tirelessly to complete its mission despite the recent setback.

"We had all of it," he said on the radio. "We'll have to go back and get the people now for those planes. But as soon as we get the green light, those people will be able to go back on to those planes. And if there's one missing, I swear to you ... We have also eight to 10 other planes that are ready to fly out if the State Department will just let us be."

TheBlaze reached out to the State Department with regard to the allegations. In response, a department representative pointed to remarks made Tuesday by Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a press conference in Doha, Qatar.

"We're working around the clock with NGOs, with members of Congress and advocacy groups, providing any and all information and doing all we can to clear any roadblocks that they've identified to make sure that charter flights carrying Americans or others to whom we have a special responsibility can depart Afghanistan safely," Blinken insisted at the conference.

"We've also been engaged with the Taliban on this topic, including in recent hours," he added. "They've said that they will let people with travel documents freely depart. We will hold them to that."

What else?

Beck noted that several members of Congress — including Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) — were directly involved in the evacuation efforts and were furiously urging the State Department not to block the flights.

Cruz confirmed to TheBlaze on Tuesday that his office has been coordinating with The Nazarene Fund and other NGOs on evacuations and that the Biden administration has been obstructing efforts.

"I'm proud of that critically important work, but Biden-Harris officials can't even get out of their own way. Now their incompetence has created the entirely predictable risk of a hostage crisis," the senator said.

In response to inquiries about the situation, the State Department has effectively thrown up its hands and conceded that there's not much it can do.

"We do not have personnel on the ground, we do not have air assets in the country, we do not control the airspace — whether over Afghanistan or elsewhere in the region," a State Department spokesman told TheBlaze on Monday.

But Beck took issue with that claim, as well, telling TheBlaze that with its statement, the department is "knowingly misleading the American people."

He said that while the State Department doesn't control the airspace anymore, it does have control over whether commercial planes take off and land in approved locations.

TheBlaze reached out to Mercury One regarding Beck's recent comments and the organization responded, "Although Glenn Beck is a political commentator, Mercury One and The Nazarene Fund are not political organizations and sometimes the things Glenn says on the radio do not represent the charities."

The Taliban is holding hostage six planes chartered by Glenn Beck charity to rescue Americans left behind by Biden admin



Six planes on a mission to rescue more than a hundred Americans wanting to leave Afghanistan were grounded by the Taliban as negotiations continued with the State Department Monday.

The evacuation effort was a part of a mission chartered by Mercury One, the charity founded by conservative media personality and TheBlaze founder Glenn Beck.

Newsweek confirmed the details through an NGO working on the evacuation.

According to the report, at least 1,000 people were waiting to board the planes at an airport in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

"The planes are currently empty and its passengers are still waiting in their safe houses for clearance for takeoff from the Taliban," said one NGO official to Newsweek. "I have more than 1,000 people on the master manifest that want to fly, of which 123 are Americans and the rest are Special Immigration Visas."

Earlier on Sunday the State Department sent an email to members of Congress to alert them about the negotiations with the Taliban. The email reportedly said that the planes had permission to land in Doha, Qatar, but only after the Taliban allowed them to leave.

"The Taliban is basically holding them hostage to get more out of the Americans," said a congressional source to CBS News.

Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas said Sunday on Fox News that the Taliban had the Americans in a hostage situation.

"In fact we have six airplanes at Mazar-i-Sharif airport, six airplanes, with American citizens on them as I speak, also with these interpreters, and the Taliban is holding them hostage for demands right now," McCaul said. "State has cleared these flights, and the Taliban will not let them leave the airport."

A spokesperson told Newsweek there were unable to confirm whether Americans were waiting to board the planes to escape.

"We do not have personnel on the ground, we do not have air assets in the country, we do not control the airspace—whether over Afghanistan or elsewhere in the region," the unidentified official said.

Glenn Beck had raised more than $22 million from donors and his radio audience to fund the mission to rescue Christians, Americans and Afghan allies from the Taliban-controlled nation.

Here's more about the effort to rescue Americans from Afghanistan:

Afghanistan UPDATE: Evacuation ending with THOUSANDS still in dangerwww.youtube.com