The Rev. Franklin Graham, leader of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, annually goes to a different city around the world to deliver a special message on Easter Sunday.

Graham, 71, delivered the message from war-torn Lviv, Ukraine, in 2022 and from Rome last year, and he told Newsmax on Friday why he chose Jerusalem for this year’s message.

“It’s because there’s so much suffering in that part of the world,” Graham told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.” “On Oct. 7, you had the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. The hundreds that were taken hostage — still 134, I think, are held hostage. Then the destruction of Gaza and the millions of people that have been affected not only in Israel but in Gaza and the West Bank.

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