A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, where it will stand on behalf of his native North Carolina. The bronzed sculpture of the prolific Charlotte-born evangelist was made public during a Thursday ceremony in the Capitol attended by House Speaker Mike Johnson, Gov.
FILE - The Rev. Billy Graham addresses a gathering of about 40,000 people at Bulldog Stadium at Fresno State University in Fresno, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 11, 2001. A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham set to stand inside the U.S. Capitol to represent North Carolina will be unveiled next week in a ceremony. A bronzed sculpture of the late Rev. Billy Graham standing in the U.S.
Graham was the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, preaching in person to nearly 215 million people worldwide, according to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. His last crusade meetings were held in New York in 2005. The Rev. Franklin Graham, the evangelist’s son, said his father would have been uncomfortable with all of the attention had he been there Thursday, “because he would want the focus to be on the one that he preached. He’d want the focus to be on the Lord Jesus Christ.”
“We acknowledge that he is a better representation of our state than the statue it replaces, which brought memories of a painful history of racism,” said Cooper, who recalled hearing Graham as a youth at a Raleigh stadium. “Not that Rev. Graham was perfect. He would have been the first to tell us that.”
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