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The Los Angeles Crusade of 1949 was the first great evangelistic campaign of Billy Graham. It was organized by the Christian group Christ for Greater Los Angeles. [ 1] The campaign was scheduled for three weeks, but it was extended to eight weeks. [ 2] During the campaign Graham spoke to 350,000 people, by the end, [ 3] 3,000 of them decided to ...
The Council of Trent ( Latin: Concilium Tridentinum ), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent (or Trento), now in northern Italy, was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. [ 1] Prompted by the Protestant Reformation at the time, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. [ 2][ 3]
Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, [ 1] famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson pioneered the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both ...
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States. It spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching and sparked a number of reform movements. Revivals were a key part of the movement and attracted hundreds of converts to new Protestant denominations.
Reinhard Bonnke was born on 19 April 1940, in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany, [1] [2] the fifth son of Hermann Bonnke, an army logistics officer in the Reichswehr who fought on the Eastern Front; his paternal grandfather was August Bonnke, the owner of a windmill in Trunz, East Prussia (now Milejewo, Poland), who was healed of an unknown ailment by the evangelist Luis Graf in 1922, but ...
Billy Graham. William Franklin Graham Jr. ( / ˈɡreɪəm /; November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelist, ordained Southern Baptist minister, and civil rights advocate, [ 1][ 2] whose broadcasts and world tours featuring live sermons became well known in the mid- to late 20th century. Throughout his career, spanning over ...
Tent revivals, also known as tent meetings, are a gathering of Christian worshipers in a tent erected specifically for revival meetings, evangelism, and healing crusades. Tent revivals have had both local and national ministries. The tent revival is generally a large tent or tents erected for a community gathering in which people gather to hear ...
William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). The Christian movement with a quasi-military structure and government founded in 1865 has spread from London to many parts of the world.