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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The television ministry of the Rev. Robert H. Schuller, who died Thursday at the age of 88, averted many suicides, according to his son.
The Rev. Robert A. Schuller says when he and his father had large meetings with supporters of the Crystal Cathedral and its "Hour of Power" broadcast, they would ask if anyone's life had been saved by the ministry, and always "about ten hands would go up."
The younger Schuller took over in 2006 but internal divisions drove him out two years later.
By 2010 the ministry that Robert H. Schuller founded was bankrupt and the iconic cathedral was sold to the Catholic church. Robert A. Schuller says that was probably the greatest disappointment in what was otherwise his father's "long, good life."
The "Hour of Power" broadcast is now hosted by the founder's grandson, the Rev. Bobby Schuller.
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