Word: grahams
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Your article on Evangelist Billy Graham's response to an invitation to a joint speaking appearance in September with Pope John Paul II in Columbia, S.C. ((RELIGION, July 13)), needs to be corrected. At the time of publication, Mr. Graham had hoped that he could rearrange his schedule in order to accept the invitation. Regretfully, he had to decline because of a commitment made nearly two years ago to visit the People's Republic of China. The timing and final briefings for this trip, which are set to begin in September, made it impossible for Mr. Graham to participate...
Oral Roberts, fresh from a run of other controversies, claims to have raised the dead. -- The Pope and Billy Graham agree to meet...
After weeks of earnest prodding from the Vatican, the Rev. Billy Graham has decided to accept an invitation for a joint September speaking appearance with Pope John Paul II in Columbia, S.C. The meeting, which will be attended by two dozen other ecumenical leaders, will mark the first time that Graham, the world's best-known Protestant, has preached alongside a Pope. It will also be John Paul's first important acknowledgment of the evangelical movement. Some conservative Protestants who are hostile to Roman Catholicism urged Graham to stay away; indeed, the president of Graham's denomination, the Southern Baptist...
...their careers and to make a significant contribution to their fields of study," said Janice Randall, a publicity coordinator for the program. Past fellows of the institute, named for former Radcliffe President Mary Ingraham Bunting, include Alice Walker, who authored "The Color Purple," and Education School Dean Patricia A. Graham...
...There's a word that brings us all together here tonight," Humorist Art Buchwald informed the black-tie crowd at Washington's Departmental Auditorium last week, "and that word is fear." Perhaps, but for most of the capital's movers and shakers, the scariest thing about Katharine Graham's 70th-birthday ; bash was not the long reach of her Washington Post Co. publishing empire but the possibility of not being invited. Among the 600 or more well-wishers at the fete organized by Graham's daughter Lally Weymouth: Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz, Senator Edward Kennedy...