Once ambivalent about God, President Trump embraced his first Easter back in office with all the vigour and devotion of a pilgrim.
Students performed live music, pastors gave sermons and politicians shared food with them at the White House as Trump tried to fulfil his promise to “bring back Christianity”.
Several of Trump’s trusted preachers were invited to speak, but none with greater name recognition than Franklin Graham, an evangelical megastar and son of Billy Graham, the famed Baptist minister considered to be one of the most influential Christian leaders of the past century (obituary, February 21, 2018).
Graham is close to President Trump, just as his father Billy Graham, below, had the ear of presidents dating back to John F Kennedy
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“There’s been a spiritual drought in this city for the past few years,” Graham, 72, said in a prayer in Washington on Thursday, directing his
