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A $70 million donation helped ORU move away from a troubled past and years of spiraling debt.

I was a huge fan of Oral Roberts, the man who practically invented televangelism and direct-mail gifting to the Lord.

Evangelist Oral Roberts was remembered Monday as a charismatic leader who deftly used television to spread the message of Christianity throughout the world.

This April 9, 2009 photo, televangelist Oral Roberts has his photo made in his Newport Beach, Calif., home.

Oral Roberts was a unique religious leader, lauded by some and lampooned by others, whose death last week marks the end of an era in American religious life.

The National Union of Health Workers has won a landmark victory over SEIU for the right to represent non-union workers at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

Oral Roberts was a larger-than-life figure in American Christianity. Roger E. Olson posted 12/16/2009 09:54AM O ral Roberts is dead at age 91.

Healing evangelist Oral Roberts, seen here ministering with his son Richard, passed away at 91.

Hello, my name is Gwen and I'm a recovering fundamentalist Christian from the heart of Ohio.

He was born and raised in Oklahoma and went to college but married a preacher's daughter and failed to complete his degree.

The death of Oral Roberts brings to a close one of the more colorful chapters in American religious history.

Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminarya 'the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world.

Here's Rep. Michele Bachmann at meetings of the Living Word Christian Center in 2006, telling the crowd that she receives prophetic visions and divine instructions directly from God, revealing that she got her law degree from the fundamentalist Oral Roberts University - and telling several outright lies about her political ambitions.

Evangelist Oral Roberts lamented past divisions between believers of "faith healing" and the United Methodist Church when he spoke to an audience in Savannah in 1977.

Camella Binkley recalls Oral Roberts as one of the most influential people in her life, not least because he founded Oral Roberts University, where she went to school and now serves on the alumni board.

Tulsa - Oral Roberts University has had a major impact on Tulsa's economy. Since its construction in the 1960s, it has proven to be key to growth in South Tulsa.

With fellow bible-thumpers the Revs Billy Graham and Pat Robertson , he discovered the power of the 'big tent' revival meeting after World War Two, invented the 'television ministry' in the 1950s, with its ability to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from the faithful, and forged the 'religious right' political movement.

A guard kept watch in Harlingen, Texas, as three busses of deportees were readied to board an Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight headed to Guatemala City.

Oral Roberts was the father of television evangelists and a well known faith healer.

With most of the students out for winter break, a still and quiet campus at Oral Roberts University mourned the death of its founder Tuesday.