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Faith Healer Benny Hinn Requests Prayer for Relative

Aliso Viejo-based faith healer Benny Hinn asks for prayer for his father-in-law.

Benny Hinn is asking for prayer for his wife's cancer-stricken father.

Suzanne Hinn's father Roy Hathern is in critical care after treatment for throat cancer, according to the ministry. This is Hathern's second bout of cancer.

"I have been called by God into the ministry and I need a strong, healthy voice to preach and teach the Word of God," Hathern is quoted as saying.

Faith healer/prosperity gospel televangelist Hinn, who tapes This Is Your Day! from his World Media Center in Aliso Viejo, released a statement Monday requesting the prayer:

Suzanne and I are asking our partners and ministry friends to join together in agreement for her precious father, Dr. Roy Harthern. He has been battling serious health issues for some time and is now in critical care. Specifically, please pray that he will be healed and whole, according to James 5:15: "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up."

Suzanne and I are so happy together, and our restored marriage is living proof of the power of prayer. With all of our prayer partners joining together, we know that God can do impossible things. We are confident that your faithful prayers on her father's behalf will be answered!

Hinn's wife divorced him in 2010 amid allegations of infidelity. The two remarried last year.

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