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From Franklin Graham: My Response to Christianity Today: Christianity Today released an editorial stating that President Trump should be removed from office—and they invoked my father’s name (I suppose to try to bring legitimacy to their statements), so I feel it is important for me to respond. Yes, my father Billy Graham founded Christianity Today; but no, he would not agree with their opinion piece. In fact, he would be very disappointed. I have not previously shared who my father voted for in the past election, but because of this article, I feel it is necessary to share it now....

Former President Barack Obama is not planning to attend memorial services for the late evangelist Rev. Billy Graham this week. Obama's office disclosed the former president's plans Monday, Yahoo! News reports, noting Graham’s support of desegregation and close ties to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Evangelist Billy Graham was admitted to Mission Hospital in Asheville, a short distance from his home in Montreat, for observation and pulmonary treatment, according to a news release sent Wednesday afternoon. According to that release, initial testing suggested pneumonia, and further diagnostic studies showed his heart was normal.

The Palins were in Alabama today helping out with disaster relief in the wake of last week’s killer tornado outbreak. Via Samaritan’s Purse: Todd Palin, four-time winner of the Iron Dog off-road snowmobile race across Alaska, along with his wife, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, joined Samaritan’s Purse volunteers to help tornado victims in Birmingham, Alabama, on Wednesday. “I came here to work hard,” Todd said. “There’s no point in being here if you’re not going to work hard.” After getting a safety briefing and talking with volunteers, the Palins joined a crew helping homeowner J.L. Price recover from the...

At the Washingon Post, a controversy is brewing over government disinvitation of Franklin Graham. Here is the discussion set of questions: What do you think? National day of prayer and controversy Did the Pentagon do the right thing by disinviting evangelist Franklin Graham from a National Day of Prayer event next week? Should government officials decide who can or cannot speak at such an event? Should the government even proclaim a National Day of Prayer? Was a federal judge right to rule it unconstitutional?

It is a struggle worthy of the Old Testament, pitting brother against brother, son against mother... Retired and almost blind at 88, the evangelist is sitting in his modest log house on an isolated mountaintop in western North Carolina and listening to a family friend describe where Franklin Graham, heir to his father's worldwide ministry, wants to bury his parents. The plan is as follows: ...I was horrified by what I saw," she tells Billy, in the presence of a reporter invited to be there. The building, designed in part by consultants who used to work for the Walt Disney...

Pentagon Muslims Angered by Rev. Graham Invitation WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Muslims at the Pentagon are incensed by what they say is an insensitive invitation to evangelist Rev. Franklin Graham, who has called Islam an "evil religion," to preach on Good Friday at the Defense Department. In letters to the Pentagon chaplain's office this week, Muslim office workers complained strongly about Graham's plans to lead prayers on Friday, one of the most religious days in the Christian calendar. The letters urged officials to find a "more inclusive and honorable" religious leader to take his place. A spokesman for Graham, son of...