Evangelist Oral Roberts, founder of the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has passed away due to complications of pneumonia at a Newport Beach hospital in California on Tuesday (December 15). He was 91 years old.

Oral, who popularized the “prosperity gospel”, was considered one of the most famous preachers of the 20th century. He was a pioneer in the use of the media to spread the word and raise millions of dollars.

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