Festival of Hope Reaches Out Eastwards.

Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), is in Budapest, Hungary, Friday for the beginning of a three-day "Festival of Hope" event that seeks to revive evangelic efforts in the Eastern European nation.

"We are here to preach God's Gospel at the invitation of area churches," Graham said in a statement, revealing that a year's work and around 312 churches from various denominations had brought the outreach effort together.