{"id":679,"date":"2011-05-12T10:41:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T14:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=679"},"modified":"2011-05-12T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T14:56:25","slug":"breaking-news-the-rev-billy-graham-92-hospitalized-with-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/05\/breaking-news-the-rev-billy-graham-92-hospitalized-with-pneumonia.html","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: The Rev. Billy Graham, 92, Hospitalized With Pneumonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelist and &#8220;pastor to presidents&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/pope-benedict-warns-bloggers-billy-graham-reflects-on-political-past.html\">Billy Graham <\/a>has been\u00a0admitted to a North Carolina hospital, with pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say Graham is resting comfortable, and perhaps it&#8217;s not too serious: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/US\/05\/11\/billy.graham.hospitalized\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> reports that\u00a0his son, Franklin Graham, is not expected to return from his humanitarian mission in North Korea for  Samaritan&#8217;s Purse, a relief and evangelism organization that he leads, and daughter Anne Graham Lotz will continue a missionary trip to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2011-05-11-billy-graham_n.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Religion-TopStories+%28News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Asheville (N.C.) Times<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20110511\/ts_alt_afp\/usreligionpolitics\">AFP<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/evangelist.billy.graham.in.hospital.with.pneumonia\/27972.htm\">Christian Today<\/a> for more on this developing news,\u00a0and\u00a0this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Faiths\/2005\/06\/The-Reverend-Billy-Graham-American-Apostle.aspx\">Beliefnet page all about Billy Graham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrated evangelist has counseled White House occupants for decades, going back to the Eisenhower administration. Although his son has clashed with the current administration, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/obama-prayed-with-billy-graham-then-eulogized-w-virginia-miners.html\">Billy Graham met and prayed with President Obama about a year ago<\/a>, when the president was on his way to eulogize the West Virginia miners.<\/p>\n<p>Check back here for updates, and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat <\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to <\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">follow Belief Beat on  Twitter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelist and &#8220;pastor to presidents&#8221; Billy Graham has been\u00a0admitted to a North Carolina hospital, with pneumonia. Officials say Graham is resting comfortable, and perhaps it&#8217;s not too serious: CNN reports that\u00a0his son, Franklin Graham, is not expected to return from his humanitarian mission in North Korea for Samaritan&#8217;s Purse, a relief and evangelism organization that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[187,182,188,14,13,185,112,186,183,184],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-billy-graham","tag-billy-graham-evangelistic-association","tag-christianity","tag-evangelical-christians","tag-franklin-graham","tag-president-obama","tag-samaritans-purse","tag-the-rev-billy-graham","tag-the-rev-franklin-graham"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING NEWS: The Rev. 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