Robert Schuller

Relatives who visited the Rev. Robert Schuller on Monday said that his health continued to improve and he was already making plans for his Christmas Eve service, a spokesman said. "I talked to family members who said he was doing great" just days after suffering a heart attack, said Michael Nason, a spokesman for the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, which Schuller founded.

The Rev. Robert H. Schuller was in high spirits at UCI Medical Center Sunday, basking in concern from at least 800 well-wishers after a minor heart attack and a procedure to clear a blocked artery. Calls "from around the United States" flooded the hospital and Schuller's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove after the 71-year-old underwent an angioplasty Saturday, said church spokesman Michael Nason.

The Rev. Robert H. Schuller was recovering from a minor heart attack and a procedure to clear a blocked artery to his heart Saturday, rendering him unable to preach today at his Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove. It is now questionable whether he will appear in the pulpit for a globally televised Christmas Eve sermon. Schuller, 71, was in "very good condition" and in good spirits at UCI Medical Center in Orange, where his family visited him Saturday afternoon, said his physician, Dr.

A honeymooning couple on the same flight as the Rev. Robert H. Schuller reaffirmed their support of the minister on Friday, claiming he couldn't have hurt the flight attendant who is suing the preacher for $5 million. Dual Macintyre and Kara Naughton Macintyre said they were in the first-class section with Schuller on the June 28 United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York.

Two United Airlines flight attendants Wednesday described televangelist Robert Schuller as tyrannical, abusive and violent on a June flight, while newlyweds sitting in the same cabin said it was the attendants who provoked the midair incident that led to assault charges against the minister. At a news conference Wednesday, flight attendant Khaled Elabiad said Schuller shook him violently after Elabiad refused to remove cheese from a fruit-and-cheese-plate in the first-class section.

Two United Airlines flight attendants Wednesday described the Rev. Robert Schuller as tyrannical, abusive and violent on a transcontinental flight in June, while newlyweds sitting in the same cabin said it was the attendants who provoked the midair incident that resulted in assault charges against the reverend.

Lawyers for the Rev. Robert H. Schuller and a flight attendant who alleges the minister assaulted him gave differing accounts Tuesday of their clients' confrontation during a plane trip to New York City two months ago.

Khaled Elabiad, the United Airlines flight attendant who said he was aggressively grabbed and shaken by the Rev. Robert H. Schuller on a transcontinental flight, plans to file a $5-million lawsuit against the TV minister, his attorney said Monday. Elabiad, who lives in the New York area and has been silent until now, also plans a media blitz this week beginning with an appearance today on "Inside Edition" and on Wednesday with "Larry King Live," said his attorney, Jack Grossman of Queens, N.Y.

Nearly a week after the Rev. Robert H. Schuller told the nation that he's being investigated for allegedly assaulting an airplane flight attendant, he again raised the subject in his Sunday church service, asking about 3,000 congregants for their support. "I am a hands-on person. I bless, I hold, I hug. My therapy has been physical and verbal," Schuller said, unleashing an uproarious applause from the audience that virtually packed the Crystal Cathedral, the Garden Grove church he founded.

Like others caught up in public relations crises before him, the Rev. Robert H. Schuller and his associates had to decide this week how to handle allegations that Schuller roughed up a United Airlines attendant on a flight to New York. Would they remain silent, wait for the issue to surface and then respond? Or would they come out swinging first by addressing the matter head-on? The approach they chose was clearly proactive.