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There may have been cleverer preachers and wiser ones, those whose messages seemed safe, logic sound. But never in history has a preacher moved so many people to act on the "invitation," that mysterious spiritual transaction that concludes every revival meeting. Over the years, 2,874,082 men and women have stepped forward, according to his staff's careful count. In Moscow a year ago, a fourth of his 155,500 listeners answered the call. "I don't know why God has allowed me to have this," Graham says. "I'll have to ask him when I get to heaven...
...bombing of the World Trade Center. They had links to the ring charged with plotting to blow up the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, the United Nations building and a federal office skyscraper in early July. All looked for spiritual guidance to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind Egyptian preacher of Islamic radicalism. Finally last week federal prosecutors declared that the three cases were part of a single terrorist conspiracy led by Abdel Rahman. A grand jury in New York City indicted Abdel Rahman, Nosair and 13 others on sweeping charges that they had plotted "to levy a war of urban...
...being immersed in water. A year later, he asked a Sunday- school teacher to take him 50 miles into Little Rock so he could listen to the Rev. Billy Graham. When he got home, he put part of his allowance in an envelope and sent it to the preacher...
...redhead had in reality toiled as a cabbie -- a crooked one, his former boss suggested. He journeyed to Afghanistan in the late '80s to fight as a member of the Islamic, antigovernment mujahedin. More to the point, he was close to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the fiery blind Muslim preacher whose fundamentalist sermons may have inspired the alleged bombers. Abohalima acted as the sheik's driver and did chores around the clergyman's house. When a rival of the sheik's in the Brooklyn, New York, fundamentalist community was stabbed and shot to death, Abohalima was considered a prime suspect...
...Easy to Command," they're not looking for jobs, they're making a statement. Leaders and some rank-and-file members of Pat Robertson's CHRISTIAN COALITION are wearing the buttons as a defiant badge of honor. The Washington Post used those unflattering terms in an article criticizing the preacher's fundamentalist followers...