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Roberts, (Granville) Oral (1918– )| US evangelist who established a multimillion dollar evangelical empire and founded Oral Roberts University in Tulsa. He had television and radio programmes and published several books, including Don't Give Up 1980. |
| He was born in Ada, Oklahoma, 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. In the later 1980s, when his enterprises encountered financial troubles, he made widely publicized appeals for aid. |
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