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Longtime evangelist Luis Palau announces cancer diagnosis
By Adelle M. Banks — January 19, 2018
(RNS) — The Argentine-born preacher, who moved to Oregon in his 20s, said he noticed symptoms in November but thought they might indicate pneumonia until doctors ran tests.
Billy Graham ‘doing well’ just ahead of 98th birthday
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 3, 2016
(RNS) The Graham family plans to celebrate Billy Graham's birthday on Monday with one of his favorite treats.
‘Nasty Girl’-turned-evangelist Denise Matthews dead at 57
By Adelle M. Banks — February 16, 2016
(RNS) “I don’t listen to my old music of Vanity’s,” she told Rolling Stone last year. “I sing to Jesus for Jesus now.”
Update: Evangelist Billy Graham released from hospital
By Katherine Burgess — November 21, 2013
(RNS) “Mr. Graham was alert and in good spirits during his stay,” said Dr. William R. Hathaway, chief medical officer at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. “We are pleased with the results of Mr. Graham’s evaluation.”
ANALYSIS: Billy Graham’s legacy is fading ‘into the mists of history’
By Ken Garfield — October 1, 2013
WHEATON, Ill. (RNS) “No matter how badly you have messed up,” Graham biographer Grant Wacker said, echoing a lifetime of Graham messages, “there’s a second chance.”
No limbs, no limits – Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Video: Nick Vujicic
By Sally Morrow — April 3, 2013
Evangelist Nick Vujicic travels the world speaking to people. He says, "I started speaking 10 years ago and we’ve been across 44 countries, spoken 2,000 times to a live audience of 5 million face to face." Considering that he has no arms and no legs, traveling the world as he does is no small accomplishment.
It’s lights out for Kathie Lee Gifford’s ‘Scandalous’ Broadway show
By Ansley Roan — December 6, 2012
NEW YORK (RNS) In the end, even Kathie Lee Gifford couldn’t save the Broadway musical about a woman who saved souls. Gifford's Broadway play, "Scandalous: The Life and Times of Aimee Semple McPherson'' will close Dec. 9, a little more than three weeks after its opening. By Ansley Roan.
Filmmaker asks whether hell is real, and who goes there
By Lauren Markoe — October 16, 2012
(RNS) The questions posed by the new film "Hellbound?'' -- does hell exist and if so, who goes there? -- are no longer so anxiety-producing for filmmaker Kevin Miller. His faith journey has taken him to embrace a gentler view of hell that isn't a place of eternal torment, and holds that all souls will be saved. By Lauren Markoe.
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