Israel Folau’s fresh fundraiser has raised over NZ$1.5 million within 24 hours of its launch.
The new appeal by the Australian Christian Lobby amassed more than Folau’s successful GoFundMe campaign raised in four days, before the fundraising website shut it down on Monday.
The ACL relaunched a campaign for the former Wallabies star on their website at 12.01am yesterday and donations raced in at a rate of nearly NZ$1000 per minute.
By 10pm last night, it had raised more than NZ$1.52 million.
Folau has been trying to raise a $3.14 million war chest from public donations to fund his legal battle against Rugby Australia, which terminated his $4.2 million contract in May.
Rugby Australia sacked Folau after he paraphrased a biblical passage on social media saying “drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolaters” would go to hell unless they repented.
Source: TVNZ
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