“Between 1947 and 2005, the US evangelist Billy Graham, who has died aged 99, conducted more than 400 crusades around the world, preaching to millions of people.
“He was one of the first western Christian leaders to speak beyond the iron curtain, first in Hungary, then in Poland and Russia.
“In 1973, more than a million people attended the closing ceremony of his crusade in Seoul, South Korea. He gained access, with great difficulty, to China in 1988 and North Korea four years later.
“Like thousands of others in the UK, I first heard Graham at Earls Court stadium in 1966, on one of his London crusades.”
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