The Rev. Reinhard Bonnke, a German-born Pentecostal faith healer whose open-air revivals in Africa attracted so many followers that in one case people were trampled to death hoping to be cured of their afflictions, died at his home in Florida on Dec. 7. He was 79.

The evangelical organization that he founded in 1974, Christ for All Nations, confirmed the death but did not give a cause of death or specify where in Florida he lived.

In a petition for prayers posted on his personal Facebook page last month, Mr. Bonnke (pronounced BON-key) said he had undergone “a right femur bone surgery” and was “learning to walk again.” Followers from Nigeria to India responded with 41,000 prayers.

“Heavenly Father, remember this man, a great general of the faith,” wrote one follower, Nugari Mugi-Irenge, from Kikuyu, Kenya.