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The Jerusalem of the East: When Billy Graham Visited Pyongyang

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The Jerusalem of the East: When Billy Graham Visited Pyongyang
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In the fall of 1991, Rev. Billy Graham, the American evangelist, received an unexpected invitation from Pyongyang. “It will be a great joy to welcome you to our church,” read the letter, which was sent by leaders of North Korea’s state-sanctioned Protestant and Catholic churches.
Rev. Graham, then seventy-three years old, had preached the Christian gospel to perhaps more people than any man in history. In addition to appearing before an estimated 215 million people in evangelistic “crusades” fro

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