{"id":542624,"date":"2026-05-15T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=542624"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:50:44","slug":"lukashenka-sends-greetings-to-trump-through-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-sends-greetings-to-trump-through-graham","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenka Sends Greetings to Trump Through Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Alyaksandr Lukashenka<\/b>, during a <a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/lukashenka-holds-meeting-with-american-preacher-franklin-graham\">meeting<\/a> with <b>Franklin Graham<\/b>, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, decided to send greetings to US President <b>Donald Trump<\/b>. During the conversation, he thanked the guest for a \u201ckind message\u201d previously delivered by presidential envoy <b>John Coale<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;Franklin, I would like to thank you for the kind message that Mr. Coale conveyed to me during his visit and our talks. You understand that without the president of the United States, it might have been more difficult for us to establish our relations,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> Lukashenka said, according to his press service.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;Therefore, when you meet him \u2014 and I know you have good relations with the president \u2014 convey my warmest wishes to him and tell him that he has reliable friends and supporters in Belarus,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Franklin Graham delivered a prayer at Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Graham arrived in Belarus to take part in the Protestant \u201cFestival of Hope.\u201d His visit is taking place from May 14 to 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alyaksandr Lukashenka, during a meeting with Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, decided to send greetings to US President Donald Trump. During the conversation, he thanked the guest for a \u201ckind message\u201d previously delivered by presidential envoy John Coale. &#8220;Franklin, I would like to thank you for the kind message that Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":542623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a06ec77a2144.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Lukashenka Sends Greetings to Trump Through Graham"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143090],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-542624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-belarus"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}