biography
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Roberts, (Granville) Oral
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| male
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| lived:
| (1918– )
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| biography:
| Protestant evangelist, born in Ada, Oklahoma, USA. The son of a Pentacostal preacher, he had little formal education, and endured poor health as a youth. After a dozen years as a pastor and evangelist in a succession of Southern towns, he became a faith healer in 1947. He went on to establish a multi-million dollar evangelical empire and to found Oral Roberts University in Tulsa. He had television and radio programmes and published several books, including Don't Give Up (1980). In the later 1980s, when his enterprises encountered financial troubles, he made widely publicized appeals for aid. |
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