“The man with his skin peeled off,” as some astonished back-country Nigerians called White Man Billy Graham, pressed on with his African crusade last week. Everywhere, he drew huge crowds and ...

The Reverend Billy Graham’s final “crusade” is set to draw tens of thousands of Christians from around the world to New York next week. Yet the historic gathering is also having a profound local ...

This month marks the 75th anniversary of Billy Graham’s first major evangelistic crusade. It was held in Los Angeles. On Sept. 25, 1949, the 30-year-old blond evangelist stood on a platform in a ...

A tall, striking man with thick hair, stark blue eyes and a firm jaw, Graham was a commanding presence at his crusades. He would make the altar call in his powerful baritone, asking the multitudes to ...

Here's a look back at some of his most memorable moments: September 1947: Billy Graham's first city-wide crusade in Grand Rapids, Michigan, followed through the years by more than 400 crusades across ...

The Reverend Billy Graham looked out at the more than 60,000 Christians who gathered Friday night to hear him preach at Flushing Meadows Corona Park and said he was “just as tense and nervous” as when ...

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?

Billy Graham, who died Wednesday at 99, will be remembered as the face of Christian evangelism in the 20th century, a movement that has become more politicized. Graham eschewed that direct ...

DURING the closed season for sin, which synchronizes pretty exactly with the lengthening evenings and the end of the winter run of salmon, religion becomes the principal pastime of our parish, as it ...