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Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias (26 March 1946 – 19 May 2020) was an Indian-born Canadian-American Christian evangelical minister and apologist who founded Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM). He was involved in Christian apologetics for a period spanning more than forty years. Zacharias was the author of more than thirty books on Christianity,[1][2] He also hosted the radio programs Let My People Think and Just Thinking.[3][4] He belonged to the Christian and Missionary Alliance, the Keswickian Christian denomination in which he was ordained as a minister.

Multiple sources have posthumously accused Zacharias of serious sexual misconduct.[6] In February 2021 Miller & Martin, the law firm hired by RZIM to look into these allegations, confirmed their veracity.[6][7][8] As a result, RZIM issued an apology and subsequently announced that it would undergo a name change and remove all material related to Zacharias.[9][10][11] The Christian and Missionary Alliance posthumously revoked his ordination after conducting their own investigation.[12] HarperCollins, which owns the Christian publishers Zondervan and Thomas Nelson, also confirmed that it would take his books out of print and remove him from other published works.

Early life and education

Ravi Zacharias was born on 26 March 1946 in Madras, India, and grew up in Delhi. He spoke Hindi fluently, the only Indian language that he knew.

Zacharias' family was Anglican,[14] but he was a "skeptic" until the age of 17 when he tried to commit suicide by swallowing poison.[4][15] While he was in the hospital, a local Christian worker brought him a Bible and told his mother to read to him from John 14, which contains Jesus' words to Thomas the Apostle.[4][16] Zacharias said it was John 14:19 that touched him as the defining paradigm, "Because I live, you also will live", and that he thought, "This may be my only hope: A new way of living. Life as defined by the Author of Life." Zacharias committed his life to Christ, praying that "Jesus if you are the one who gives life as it is meant to be, I want it. Please get me out of this hospital bed well, and I promise I will leave no stone unturned in my pursuit of truth."

In 1966, Zacharias emigrated with his family to Canada,[4] earning his undergraduate degree from the Ontario Bible College in 1972 (now Tyndale University) and his M.Div. from Trinity International University in 1976.[4] In 1990 he participated in guided study at Ridley Hall, a Church of England theological school in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

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