Billy Graham drew national attention with sermons in tented revivals, known as “crusades.” The first Billy Graham crusade was held in 1947 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. By some estimates, Graham reached ...

On April 30, 1956, Billy Graham, a Christian Protestant evangelist and ordained Southern Baptist minister visited Richmond. In the 1940s, Graham became known internationally from his sermons which ...

J A C K S O N V I L L E,  Fla., Nov. 3 -- Old and young, some in wheelchairs, made their way to the front of the stage. “Are you sure that Jesus lives in you?” Graham asked the group. “Deep ...

As Billy Graham arrived in Paris to begin a five-day evangelical crusade, a phalanx of welcomers broke through a line of gendarmes at the railway station, shouting “Beelee! Beelee! Beelee!” “Bee-lee?

June 23, 2005 -- -- At 86, Billy Graham looks frail: His once-resonant voice is softer, he uses a walker, cannot hear out of one ear, and suffers from Parkinson's disease, prostate cancer and a ...

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 ...

ABOVE the entrance to the specially built 8,000-seat “tabernacle,” a banner proclaims: BILLY GRAHAM’S GREATER ALBUQUERQUE CRUSADE. Despite the threatening windy weather which has dusted the nearby ...