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America's most-loved evangelist Billy Graham dies

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Updated: 21/02/2018 - 17:24 GMT+1

Friend to 12 presidents and the first revivalist preacher to make a national impact via television and the media, he established a model for building a proseletysing church that kept the loyalty of its congregation, a model some later tele-evangelists copied to get fabulously rich.

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