Reinhard Bonnke, the ‘Billy Graham of Africa,’ Dies at 79

The Rev. Reinhard Bonnke, a German-born Pentecostal faith healer whose open-air revivals in Africa attracted so many followers that in one case people were trampled to death hoping to be cured of their afflictions, died at his home in Florida on Dec. 7. Reinhard Bonnke was born on April 19, 1940, in the historically Prussian city of Königsberg. He was 79.

The evangelical organization that he founded in 1974, Christ for All Nations, confirmed the death but did not give a cause of death or specify where in Florida he lived. May his soul rest in peace.

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