Televangelist Paul Crouch's Health Improves
by Barry Bowen
On Friday Trinity Broadcasting Network reported on its Facebook page:
TBN's founder, age 79, experienced congestive heart failure in 2011.
This week TBN is holding its Share-a-Thon fundraiser. If Paul Crouch, Sr. appears in any videos shown this week, these appearances may be from previously recorded broadcasts.
Good News! Paul Crouch, Sr. has had his ventilator removed and he is now breathing on his own! He remains hospitalized so please continue praying for him. Thank you!
TBN's founder, age 79, experienced congestive heart failure in 2011.
This week TBN is holding its Share-a-Thon fundraiser. If Paul Crouch, Sr. appears in any videos shown this week, these appearances may be from previously recorded broadcasts.
TBN founder Paul Crouch hospitalized
Trinity Broadcasting Network
founder Paul Crouch delivers his message of faith and praise at a
revival meeting held in the Cathedral of Light in Selma, Calif., on Aug.
18, 1988.
(Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times / August 18, 1988)
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October 30, 2013 | 3:39 p.m.
He was taken to the hospital Oct. 22 and was stable as of Wednesday, according to a TBN spokesman.
Over the past decade, Crouch has been treated for a chronic heart condition and last year he received a pacemaker, according to a news release.
"Everyone associated with TBN, and especially Jan and the Crouch family, want to express their deep and sincere appreciation for the countless prayers and expressions of support and encouragement offered by TBN's many friends and partners all over the world," the news release stated.
TBN, based in Costa Mesa but with locations across the U.S., touts itself as the world's largest Christian television network. It is carried by more than 5,000 stations.
—Hannah Fry