WASHINGTON—US Reverend Billy Graham was hospitalized Wednesday for possible pneumonia, the facility treating the 93-year-old internationally renowned evangelist said.
“He was admitted this afternoon,” a spokeswoman for Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina told AFP.
The hospital said in a statement that he was admitted “for evaluation and treatment of his lungs,” and that he was in stable condition and was “alert, smiling and waving at hospital staff.”
“The pulmonologist treating Mr Graham, Mark Hellreich, MD, said that Mr Graham is being tested for possible pneumonia,” according to the hospital.
The reverend — a Southern Baptist preacher who rose to become spiritual advisor to millions of American television viewers and several US presidents — was previously hospitalized for successful treatment of pneumonia last May.