Christian author Ravi Zacharias has died at the age of 74.
According to a press release from Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, Zacharias died in his Georgia home on Tuesday morning after a short battle with cancer.
As Christian Headlines previously reported, in March, Zacharias revealed that he had been diagnosed with a rare form of malignant cancer called Sarcoma. The cancer was discovered in the form of a tumor on his sacrum bone during back surgery.
Following his diagnosis, Zacharias
began receiving chemotherapy treatments at the renowned M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, in April.
Unfortunately, while the tumor on his sacrum was responding well to chemo, the cancer had metastasized and worsened in the areas where it had spread, Zacharias’ daughter Sarah Davis shared in a statement last week.
“We have just learned that while the tumor in my dad’s sacrum has been responding to the chemotherapy, the area where the cancer metastasized has actually worsened,” Davis wrote in a statement .
“His oncologist informed us that this cancer is very rare in its aggression and that no options for further treatment remain. Medically speaking, they have done all they are able.”
Zacharias then returned to his home in Alpharetta, GA from the cancer treatment center where he spent his last days on Earth.
Zacharias, whose full name is Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias, was born in Madras, now Chennai, India in 1946, to his mother, Isabella, and his father, Oscar.
While he grew up in a Christian home, it wasn’t until age 17 that Zacharias began to believe in Jesus.
After making an attempt on his own life, Zacharias was lying in a hospital bed when he was read Jesus’ words, “Because I live, you will also live.”-Christian Headlines.
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