MONTREAT,
N.C. (AP) — As a young man, he practiced his sermons by preaching to
the alligators and birds in the swamp. At his height years later, he was
bringing the word of God into living rooms around the globe via TV and
dispensing spiritual counsel — and political advice — to U.S.
presidents.
The
Rev. Billy Graham, dubbed "America's Pastor" and the "Protestant Pope,"
died Wednesday at his North Carolina home at age 99 after achieving a
level of influence and reach no other evangelist is likely ever to
match.
More
than anyone else, the magnetic, Hollywood-handsome Graham built
evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman
Catholicism in the United States.
The
North Carolina-born Graham transformed the tent revival into an event
that filled football arenas, and reached the masses by making pioneering
use of television in prosperous postwar America. By his final crusade
in 2005, he had preached in person to more than 210 million people
worldwide.
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