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...Christmas. From Manhattan came Francis Cardinal Spellman, who besides being Archbishop of New York is Vicar of the Military Ordinariate, responsible for the spiritual care of all Roman Catholics in the U.S. armed forces. From Titusville, Fla., where he interrupted a winter vacation with his wife Ruth, came Evangelist Billy Graham, on a flying tour sponsored by the Protestant churches of Korea...
Billy Graham had arrived in Pusan a week earlier to do some preaching for Korean Christians. In five nights of preaching-three to largely Korean audiences, two to groups of G.I.s-more than i.ooo walked down the aisle to make "decisions for Christ." Said Evangelist Billy: "It makes no difference whether you are Korean, American, Chinese or Japanese. You are all sinners." In the Seoul area, the cardinal visited hospitals and various nearby units, faithfully taking the names of all the soldiers he talked to. (Last year he sent letters to the relatives of 6,000 after he returned...
...When Evangelist Graham got to Seoul, he preached for five packed services in the Presbyterian church, then went up to the front just before Christmas to see the troops. The day before Christmas, in a tour of the central front, 5,000 men turned out to see him. Christmas afternoon he put aside his helmet and flak vest, flew back to Tokyo. Both Evangelist Graham and Cardinal Spellman left a great many calmer, happier Christians behind them in Korea. Graham also left a dog-tired Korean interpreter, the Rev. Han Kyung Chik, a Seoul pastor. Said Presbyterian Han, after...
...Defense Department announced that it had approved the request of Evangelist Billy Graham to make a gospel tour of Korea. In Manhattan, Francis Cardinal Spellman said he would spend his second Christmas in Korea, where he plans "to celebrate Mass in three different sectors of the front on Christmas...
When Sky Pilot Fuchida goes back to Japan, Evangelist Sachs hopes to provide him with a helicopter to help in setting up the Japanese organization. Says Sachs: "We're honestly trying to build him up as the Apostle Paul of Japan." In the international Sky Pilots organization, ex-Captain Fuchida will have the rank of a one-star general...