They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

(AP Photo/Marianne Armshaw, File)PORTLAND, Ore. – Luis Palau, an evangelical pastor who was born in Argentina and went on to work with Billy Graham before establishing his own powerhouse international ministry, died Thursday. The Luis Palau Association said he died at his home in Portland, Oregon. His radio programs, including the international Spanish-language “Luis Palau Responde,” are broadcast on 3,500 stations in 48 countries and his Portland, Oregon-based organization, the Luis Palau Association, organizes dozens of events each year on five continents. Palau began an international Spanish-language radio program called “Luis Palau Responde” in Colombia and throughout the 1970s, he gave sermons in Latin American. In 1978, Palau incorporated his ministry as the Luis Palau Association in Portland, Oregon, and later set an attendance record at the city’s enormous waterfront park during an evangelist event.