Popular American Pastor Billy Graham Is Dead !

US evangelist Billy Graham - one of the most influential preachers of the 20th Century - has died aged 99. Graham became one of the best-known promoters of Christianity, beginning his worldwide mission in large arenas in London in 1954. He died at his home in Montreat, North Carolina. In a 60-year career, he is estimated to have preached to hundreds of millions of people.

Graham reached millions of them through TV - the first to use the medium to convey the Christian message on that scale.

Born in 1918 and raised on his family's dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, Billy Graham became a committed Christian at the age of 16 after hearing a travelling evangelist. He was ordained a minister in 1939, aged 21. Graham's public profile was raised in the United States when he held a two-month ministry in a giant tent in Los Angeles in 1949.

His global mission, which took him to all corners of the world including North Korea, was marked by a sermon before 12,000 worshippers in 1954 in Haringay Arena, London. At first ambivalent about the civil rights movement in the US, he went on to become a supporter in the 1950s with racially integrated congregations.

Graham, a friend of US presidents from Truman to Nixon and Obama, preached his final revival meeting in New York in 2005 at the age of 86.

Reacting in a tweet, President Donald Trump called him a special man.He wrote: "The GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man."

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE.
AMEN.

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Jyothi Babu Jeevan and 25 others

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Amegassi Muh'd Jummai

Rest in peace

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Olufemi Adekunle Rotty

May his soul rest in perfect peace, Amen.

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Kunle Alade

May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace

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Arinze Abuchi Okorie

Oh! My God! RIP one in a million. A rare instrument of revival.

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Emmanuel Gilbert

Few days ago he bought a new suit he wished to be buried in when he died, then see it, death called, one of the great healing evangelist of our time

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Endy Edeson

Gilbert, I learnt you are also an evangelist. I believe Graham should be one of your role models

Emmanuel Gilbert

ya Endy, but role model not really, his kind of ministry is different from mine he's is healing mine is online, but not withstanding he is a great man like Reinhard Bonnke and Benny Hinn but more powerful than them both

Endy Edeson

Okay, that's cool. One thing I like about YOU EVANGELISTS is the message of hope and love you preach. Though, I am a secular person but I key into prophetic religious messages. I have received blessings through religious programmes many times. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK GILBERT

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Emmanuel Gilbert

thank you Endy, thats encouraging

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Treasure Samson

Rip may god take of him