Billy Graham, the legendary evangelist and also an adviser to several US Presidents, passed away at his home in Montreat, N.C, on 21st February 2018. He had long suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments. His voice evangelized to nearly 215 million people over six decades and prayed with US presidents from Harry Truman to Barack Obama. During his time in ministry, Graham insisted that his crusades and rallies be racially integrated, and was friends with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
During his work in ministry, he wrote more than 30 books and conducted the annual Billy Graham Crusades until his retirement from active ministry in 2005. Prominent Catholics reacted with sadness to Graham’s death, including Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York. His Eminence Cardinal Dolan remarked that “There was no question that the Dolans were a Catholic family, firm in our faith, but in our household, there was always respect and admiration for Billy Graham and the work he was doing to bring people to God.”
He was listed on Gallup’s annual US poll of most admired people 61 times, including in 2017, more than any other world figure – though he never made first place.
