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WDBJ7
March 9, 2018
It was quiet outside Hotel Roanoke in the early evening. But inside a Graham was preaching. This is Will Graham, grandson to Billy Graham and Executive director at the Billy Graham Training Center. Before a crowd in the Hotel Roanoke conference center, he's doing what he knows best. "I'm gonna do justÃâà...
BP News
March 9, 2018
The pulpit used by Billy Graham during his 1954 crusade in New Orleans preserves the signatures of Billy Graham, George Beverly Shea, Cliff Barrows, and others. In 2006, during a two-night crusade in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, Graham's son Franklin and grandson Will signed the pulpit.
First Things
March 8, 2018
In his adept use of media, Graham followed in the footsteps of George Whitefield, the Billy Graham of the eighteenth century. Whitefield would surely have reached Graham's hundreds of millions of people if he had had television, airplanes, and sports arenas at his disposal. As it was, Whitefield became theÃâà...
Charlotte Observer
March 7, 2018
A movement to establish a national holiday for evangelist Billy Graham has reached 100,000 signatures in an online petition. Since being launched a week ago, the Change.org petition has gotten more than 100,100 signatures, which is more than triple the initial goal of 35,000. The goal is now 150,000Ãâà...
CNN
March 2, 2018
After the service at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, the globe-trotting preacher and spiritual confidant to American presidents was to be buried beside his wife, Ruth, at the foot of the cross-shaped brick walkway in the library's Prayer Garden. "It was Mr. Graham's explicit intent that his funeral serviceÃâà...
Variety
March 1, 2018
In today's roundup, Fox announced the debut of the documentary “Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey,” and FXX released the premiere date for the ninth season of “Archer.” DATES. Fox will premiere the documentary “Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey” on Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Charlotte Observer
March 1, 2018
They built it inside a small prison wood-working shop, tucked away from the main complex of America's largest maximum-security penitentiary. The three men were inmates: Liggett and Bowman sentenced to life for murder, Krolowitz serving more than 30 years for armed robbery. The prison is formallyÃâà...
ABC News
March 1, 2018
Billy Graham began choosing songs, scripture and speakers for one last public opportunity to spread the Gospel — his own funeral. Plans for Friday's service took shape in the years after his final crusade in 2005 as he huddled with confidants and loved ones in his North Carolina mountain home.
New York Times
March 1, 2018
Billy Graham, who died last week at the age of 99 and on Wednesday became only the fourth private citizen in American history to lie in honor at the United States Capitol, as politicians including President Trump, along with hundreds if not thousands of ordinary Americans, came to pay their respects.
CNN International
February 28, 2018
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CBS New York
February 28, 2018
WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork/AP) — He felt stung by the politics that helped define his life — and resolved to keep a distance. But in death, the Rev. Billy Graham received a rare tribute from the nation's top political leaders under the Capitol Rotunda. “Here lies America's pastor,” said House Speaker PaulÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 28, 2018
News. From hometown to U.S. Capitol, mourners honor Billy Graham. "America's pastor" is lying in honor in the soaring Capitol Rotunda before a funeral Friday near his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. Feb.28.2018 / 1:57 PM ET 21 PHOTOS. Share this —Ãâà...
CNN
February 28, 2018
Graham prayed with every US president from Harry Truman to Barack Obama and became known as "America's pastor." After the news of Graham's death, Trump tweeted that there was "nobody like him." "The GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and allÃâà...
New York Times
February 27, 2018
The Rev. Billy Graham admitted in his later years that he had learned a hard lesson after the Watergate scandal exposed his cozy complicity with President Richard M. Nixon: Pastors should not become too enmeshed with politicians and partisan politics. “Looking back I know I sometimes crossed the line,Ãâà...
New York Times
February 21, 2018
The Rev. Billy Graham, a North Carolina farmer's son who preached to millions in stadium events he called crusades, becoming a pastor to presidents and the nation's best-known Christian evangelist for more than 60 years, died on Wednesday at his home in Montreat, N.C. He was 99. His death wasÃâà...
