She believed in the death penalty and said that in countries where they have it, “I feel safer walking down the street.” Yet in 1978, Ruth Bell Graham befriended North Carolina’s death row inmate ...

In his obituary for Ruth Bell Graham, Marshall Shelley writes: “Ruth provided a measure of grit that complemented Billy’s more diplomatic style.” Marshall edits Leadership, CT’s sister publication for ...

(Columbia) - For the majority of her life, Ruth Graham shared the spotlight with her husband Evangelist Billy Graham. Although she was not the famous face flashing across television screens, she was ...

With his wife, Ruth Bell Graham, in a coma at home in western North Carolina, the Rev. Billy Graham announced yesterday that she will be buried in the city of Charlotte and not in her beloved ...

In the summer of 1941, Ruth McCue Bell, a 21-year-old college graduate with a razor-sharp mind, made a decision that today might seem, as they say in her adopted state of North Carolina, somewhat ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Though long-assumed, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association has given its first official word that the ailing evangelist would no longer hold crusades. The association said in a ...