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Oral Roberts University news and information. Oral Roberts helped found the university and his family is still heavily involved in managing the school. Oral Roberts University is now involved in a political scandal with the Republican... [more]

Oral Roberts University news and information. Oral Roberts helped found the university and his family is still heavily involved in managing the school.

Oral Roberts University is now involved in a political scandal with the Republican National Committee. They are being sued by Dr Paulita Booker.

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To his followers, the hands evangelist Oral Roberts used to heal thousands of people will still help guide the university he founded nearly a half-century ago, even after his death. Roberts passed away last week at 91, but the legacy of charismatic Christianity he brought to the religious community continues on the south Tulsa campus and beyond. A public memorial service is scheduled for Monday at the Mabee Center on the Oral Roberts University campus. While students in the 1960s and 1970s flocked to the evangelical liberal arts school because of Roberts' name, the next generation came because of the school's unchanging mission: to ... Read Full Story
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Oral Roberts, the US evangelist who took his healing powers onto television and founded a Christian university that bears his name, died Tuesday at the age of 91, his website said. Born on January 24, 1918 in Oklahoma, Roberts grew up to become a well known healing evangelist, author, educator and television personality. According to a memorial page posted on his website, he began his ministry after he was miraculously healed of tuberculosis and a lifelong stammer at the age of 17. "As his older brother drove him to a revival meeting to be prayed for, God spoke to him and said, 'Son, I ... Read Full Story
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Evangelist Oral Roberts, who became one of America's most successful and controversial television preacher with claims of faith healing and unusual money-raising tactics, died on Tuesday at the age of 91. Oral Roberts Ministries published a tribute to Roberts on its website and news reports said that he died in Newport Beach, California, of complications from pneumonia. Roberts, a preacher's son, started out putting on charismatic revival meetings in tents. He later took his ministry to radio and then to television, a path taken by other fiery evangelists such as Pat Robertson and Billy Graham. He based his organization in ... Read Full Story
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Evangelist Oral Roberts, who rose from tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar organization and an Oklahoma university bearing his name, has died. He was 91. His spokesman A. Larry Ross said by phone from Carrollton, Texas, that Roberts died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia in Newport Beach, Calif. Roberts was hospitalized after a fall on Saturday. He had survived two heart attacks in the 1990s and a broken hip in 2006. Roberts overcame tuberculosis at age 17, and credited that triumph with leading him to become one of the country's most famous ministers. By the 1960s and '70s, the Oklahoma-born Roberts was reaching millions ... Read Full Story
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Oral Roberts passed on today after complications from pneumonia. He was 91 years old. Roberts was someone I always associated with the religious fire and brimstone speeches and hard-handed hitting of subjects to get them to rise, asserting that they were healed from an illness.  Roberts will be remembered not just as the first person to bring religious preaching and ceremony, and his healing ministry to television - he's now called the first "televangelist" - but for talking frankly about religion and sex on the airwaves. But beyond theatrics and a powerful set of convictions, Roberts will be remembered for the school he created ... Read Full Story
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Oral Roberts, founder and chancellor of Oral Roberts University, passed away on December 15 at the age of 91. His departure is mourned by the ORU family, including the students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters who embraced his philosophy of whole-person education. Born in 1918 in rural Oklahoma, Roberts was a preacher’s kid who initially rejected [...]  
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Associated Press - December 21, 2009 1:44 PM ET TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Hundreds of cars have lined up outside the Mabee Center at Oral Roberts University for a memorial service for ORU founder...  
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TULSA -- A public memorial service to honor evangelist Oral Roberts, founder of Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (OREA) and Oral Roberts University (ORU), is set for 2 p.m.Read more on NewsOK.com  
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Sydney Morning HeraldOral Roberts University to host founder's memorial serviceFOX11AZ.comThe 91-year-old Roberts died Tuesday in Newport Beach, Calif. The service will be held at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., which Roberts founded in ...Evangelist Oral Roberts dies at 91Washington PostHe believed in miraclesNorman TranscriptOral Roberts, Fiery Preacher, Dies at 91New York TimesCNN International -Examiner.com -KTULall 1,438 news...  
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Washington PostOral Roberts scores another upset, handing No. 13 New Mexico its first loss, 75-66Los Angeles TimesTULSA, Okla. (AP) — Michael Craion had 18 points and 13 rebounds, Dominique Morrison scored 17 points and Oral Roberts handed No. ...Oral Roberts Stuns 12th-Ranked New MexicoKTULORU upsets No. 13 New Mexico, 75-66Tulsa WorldHigh-flying Eagles: ORU records upset victory against previously unbeaten New ...American Chronicleall 144...  
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TULSA, Okla. —Evangelist Oral Roberts was remembered Monday as a charismatic leader who deftly used television to spread the message of Christianity worldwide.Thousands packed an arena at Oral Roberts University for the memorial service for the man who founded the evangelical liberal arts school. Roberts, 91, died of complications from pneumonia last week in California."You sent us a man who we know and loved and who walked with God and...  
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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 [...]  
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