Peter Popoff is a German-born American faith healer

Faith Healer

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 and the president of Peter Popoff Ministries. He conducts revival meeting

Revival meeting

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s and has a national television program. A popular minister in the 1980s, he went bankrupt in 1987 after skeptics James Randi

James Randi

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 and Alexander (Alec) Jason exposed his method of receiving information about revival attendees from his wife via an in-ear receiver. According to Fred M. Frohock, "[t]he case of Peter Popoff is one of many egregious instances of fake healing".