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<p><b>Ruth Bell Graham</b> (* <a href="10._Juni" title="10. Juni">10. Juni</a> <a href="1920" title="1920">1920</a> in <a href="Huai'an" class="mw-redirect" title="Huai'an">Qingjiang</a> als <i>Ruth McCue Bell</i>; † <a href="14._Juni" title="14. Juni">14. Juni</a> <a href="2007" title="2007">2007</a> in Montreat, <a href="North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>) war die Ehefrau des bekannten <a href="Evangelikalismus" title="Evangelikalismus">evangelikalen</a> <a href="Erweckung" class="mw-redirect" title="Erweckung">Erweckungspredigers</a> <a href="Billy_Graham" title="Billy Graham">Billy Graham</a>.
</p><p>Ruth Bell Graham wurde als Tochter des Arztes und Missionars <a href="Lemuel_Nelson_Bell" title="Lemuel Nelson Bell">Lemuel Nelson Bell</a> und seiner Frau Virginia in <a href="China" title="China">China</a> geboren, wo sie auch aufwuchs.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sie lebte außerdem drei Jahre im <a href="Korea" title="Korea">koreanischen</a> <a href="Pj%C3%B6ngjang" title="Pjöngjang">Pjöngjang</a>, bevor sie 1937 zum Studium am <a href="Wheaton_College_(Illinois)" title="Wheaton College (Illinois)">Wheaton College</a> in die <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">Vereinigten Staaten</a> zurückkehrte. Während ihres Studiums lernte sie ihren späteren Ehemann Billy Graham kennen. Die beiden heirateten am 13. August 1943 in Montreat, nachdem sie ihren Abschluss am College erlangt hatte. Aus der gemeinsamen Ehe gingen drei Töchter und zwei Söhne hervor, darunter <a href="Franklin_Graham" title="Franklin Graham">Franklin Graham</a>, die in evangelikalen amerikanischen Kirchen aktiv und überregional bekannt sind.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-latimes_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Patricia Cornwell: <i>The story of Ruth Bell Graham.</i> WaterBrook Press, 1998.</li>
<li>Stephen Griffith: <i>Ruth Bell Graham: A Tribute: Celebrating an Extraordinary Life.</i> Thomas Nelson, 2003.</li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Randall Herbert Balmer: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">Graham, Ruth (McCue) Bell</cite>. In: <cite class="lang" lang="en" dir="auto" style="font-style:italic">Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism</cite>. Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X, <span style="white-space:nowrap">S.<span style="display:inline-block;width:.2em"> </span>299</span> (englisch).<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Ruth+Bell+Graham&rft.atitle=Graham%2C+Ruth+%28McCue%29+Bell&rft.au=Randall+Herbert+Balmer&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+Evangelicalism&rft.date=2004&rft.genre=book&rft.isbn=193279204X&rft.pages=299&rft.place=Waco&rft.pub=Baylor+University+Press" style="display:none"> </span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite">Ted Olson: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130518104839/http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2007/06/ruth_bell_graha.html"><i>Ruth Bell Graham Dies at 87.</i></a> Christianity Today, archiviert vom <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r250917974">
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<li id="cite_note-latimes-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-latimes_3-0">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.latimes.com/la-me-graham15jun15-story.html"><i>Los Angeles</i> "Ruth Graham, 87; had active role as wife of evangelist" June 15, 2007</a></span>
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