It is rare for Cruz, a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, to publicly deliver personal details about his family’s struggles. His father, Rafel Cruz, is a well-known minister who will sometimes appear with his son.
“He gave his life to Jesus,” Cruz said of his father. “And he went and bought an airplane ticket and flew back to Calgary to rejoin my mother and to rejoin his son. So when anyone asks is faith real, is a relationship with Jesus real, I can tell you if it were not for my father giving his life to Christ, I would have been raised by a single mother.”...