Christian evangelist Ravi Zacharias dies at 74

Christian evangelist Ravi Zacharias, who built an international ministry with a zealous, intellectual defense of his faith, died following a brief bout with sarcoma, loved ones said Tuesday.

The founder of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries was 74 when he died on Thursday at his home in Atlanta.

RZIM President Michael Ramsden said Zacharias always welcomed any voice who questioned Christianity.

″[Ravi] saw the objections and questions of others not as something to be rebuffed, but as a cry of the heart that had to be answered,” Ramsden said in a statement.

“People weren’t logical problems waiting to be solved; they were people who needed the person of Christ. Those who knew him well will remember him first for his kindness, gentleness, and generosity of spirit. The love and kindness he had come to know in and through Jesus Christ was the same love he wanted to share with all he met.”