{"id":55019,"date":"2020-05-19T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T17:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55019"},"modified":"2020-05-19T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T17:48:54","slug":"55019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55019","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/cwn\/2020\/may\/world-renowned-christian-apologist-ravi-zacharias-dies\">World-Renowned Christian Advocate Ravi Zacharias Dies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>World-renowned Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias, 74, passed away at his home in Atlanta on May 19 from a rare form of cancer in his spine.<\/p>\n<p>Zacharias announced earlier this year that he was suffering from severe pain in his spine and would undergo surgery. A malignant tumor of the sacrum called sarcoma was discovered in March.<\/p>\n<p>He battled the disease with the help of top doctors, but his daughter announced less than two weeks ago that no further medical treatments were available.<\/p>\n<p>The apologist was born Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias in Chennai, India in 1946.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1DzenFwOMWuMjuPGxKlvJ-3McYxT8lg9e\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He became a Christian\u00a0<\/a>at the age of 17 while recovering in a Delphi hospital after attempting to take his own life.<\/p>\n<p>It was after this incident that Zacharias began to grasp the true meaning of life.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/churchandministry\/what-makes-the-christian-message-unique\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>CBN News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0he explained, &#8220;I was on a bed of suicide in Delhi, searching for meaning, searching for the answers to life&#8217;s basic questions. They boil down to this \u2013 origin, meaning, morality, and destiny. How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-Renowned Christian Advocate Ravi Zacharias Dies World-renowned Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias, 74, passed away at his home in Atlanta on May 19 from a rare form of cancer in his spine. Zacharias announced earlier this year that he was suffering from severe pain in his spine and would undergo surgery. A malignant tumor of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55020,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55019\/revisions\/55020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}