Indian-born Canadian-American Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias died today at the age of 74.

After 48 years of teaching and commending Christianity, Zacharias passed away early Tuesday morning at his Atlanta home.

In March 2020, Zacharias announced he had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on his sacrum.

Three weeks prior to his announcement, the apologist had undergone successful back surgery when he began to experience "very severe pain, so intense in the night, especially, that I have been unable to sleep."

cer had metastasized had worsened.

pture—a message he would carry across the globe for 48 years."

The verse that changed his life

Zacharias grew up in India and came to Christ at the age of 17. A skeptic of faith, Zacharias' life was changed after coming across the words of John 14:19, "Because I live, you will also live."

The passage was particularly meaningful to the young man, who was in the hospital at that time for attempting to take his own life.

Zacharias promised then to "leave no stone unturned in my pursuit of truth."

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