US evangelist Billy Graham - one of the most influential preachers of the 20th Century - has died aged 99
Graham became one of the best-known promoters of Christianity, beginning his worldwide mission in large arenas in London in 1954.
He died at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, a spokesman for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said.
In a 60-year career, he is estimated to have personally preached to 210 million people.
Graham reached millions more through TV - the first to use the medium to convey the Christian message on that scale.
He became a committed Christian at the age of 16 after hearing a travelling evangelist and was ordained a minister in 1939.
Graham came to wider attention in the United States when he held a two-month ministry in a giant tent in Los Angeles in 1949.
Reacting in a tweet, President Donald Trump called him a special man.
He wrote: "The GREAT Billy Graham is dead. There was nobody like him! He will be missed by Christians and all religions. A very special man."
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, tweeted that he was an example to generations of modern Christians.
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