Word: evangelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Local politicians, ex-Football Star Roosevelt Grier, and Evangelists Rex Humbard and Pat Robertson attended. Barbara Mandrell sang the national anthem. There was a congratulatory letter from President Reagan. The festivities in Tulsa last week preceded not the kickoff of a football game but the opening of the City of Faith, the $150 million medical complex that Evangelist Oral Roberts claims he built on direct orders from...
...hour of need, Roberts was not found wanting. Money started to pour in after the evangelist told of a visitation by a 900-ft.-tall Jesus who said, "I told you I would speak to your partners and through them I would build it." And objections were overridden after state officials were hit with thousands of letters from Roberts' followers. The evangelist says he persisted in the four-year effort because if he did not build the City of Faith, "I would be disobedient...
...Korean evangelist is charged with tax evasion
When it comes to legal troubles, there is nothing much new under the heavens for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the South Korean evangelist who since 1971 has claimed to be acting in the U.S. under direct instructions from Jesus Christ. Parents whose teen-age children have been lured away from home and into Moon's Unification Church have lodged kidnaping charges against the church. New York City tax authorities have won court rulings declaring that religion is not the "primary purpose" of the church and that some of its property in the city is thus not exempt from...
...Jewish Evangelist Esther Jungreis [June 15] is like a biblical prophet who inspires Jews to return to their heritage. I was an assimilated Jew. I had joined the Jews for Jesus and was on the verge of intermarriage. Jungreis personally guided me to discover the Jewish way of life so that I left the Jews for Jesus, canceled my planned intermarriage, and embraced the Jewish religion. She has kindled a passion for meaningful Jewish living in many dormant Jewish souls...