(Reuters) - Billy Graham, one of America's best-known evangelists, was released on Tuesday from a North Carolina hospital after a bout with pneumonia, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Graham, 93, returned to his home in Montreat, North Carolina, after a six-day stay in the hospital.
"I am grateful for the many thoughts and prayers expressed by individuals across the country and around the world during my stay at Mission Hospital," Graham said in a statement.
He will continue a program of physical therapy at home, his staff said in a statement.
"We are gratified that he has had a good response to treatment and we're committed to good home care to continue his improvement," Graham's personal physician, Lucian Rice, said in a statement.
Graham, a preacher of Christian gospel to millions of followers worldwide and a spiritual adviser to several U.S. presidents, was treated in May for a previous bout of pneumonia.
His wife, Ruth, died in June 2007.
(Writing by Mary Slosson; Editing by Jerry Norton)
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