<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Billy Graham, one of the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history passed away at the age of 99 at his home in North Carolina. He is credited for transforming American religious life through his preaching and activism. </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br />''</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">His leadership summits and crusades in more than 185 countries and territories forged powerful global links among conservative Christians, and threw a lifeline to believers in the communist-controlled Eastern bloc.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dubbed America's pastor, Graham was a confidant to US Presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br />''</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">In 1983, President Reagan gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honour. </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br />''</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:200%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:200%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Graham's reached millions of people through his pioneering use of prime-time telecasts, network radio, daily newspaper columns, evangelistic feature films and globe-girdling satellite TV hookups.</span></p>''<div class="yj6qo"></div>''<div class="adL"></div>