Jimmy Swaggart, the reverend who rose to prominence during the golden age of televangelism in the 1980s before a prostitution scandal rocked his evangelical empire, has died. He was 90. The television ...

Jimmy Swaggart is dead. The Pentecostal Televangelist who rose to power throughout the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s to become a fixture of American television before a string of scandals capsized his ...

BATON ROUGE, LA—Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, a faithful preacher of the gospel and founder of the worldwide ministry and Bible college that bears his name, passed away this morning at about 7:30 a.m, ...

Before his career ended in shame, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart was a pioneering legend, a magnetic preacher and performer whose mastery of both pulpit and piano earned a groundbreaking national and ...

(RNS) — Some of my best friends are Christian ministers. Could I pander any better than that? My colleagues and I forged these friendships — not despite our theological differences, but because of ...

Jimmy Swaggart, a once-popular televangelist whose ministry was mired by multiple sex scandals, died on Tuesday. He was 90. Swaggart had been in critical condition at a Louisiana hospital after going ...

Your front page news story on July 2 was full of praise about Jimmy Swaggart. It painted him as a saint. It mentioned nothing about his anti-Catholicism. Several points were detailed in an email from ...

Famed television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart has died at 90. The death was announced via Facebook by Jimmy Swaggart Ministries. “Today, our hearts are heavy as we share that Brother Swaggart has ...

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, who died Tuesday in Baton Rouge, was not only a world-famous preacher but also one of the bestselling gospel music artists of all time. A cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis and ...

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Jimmy Swaggart, longtime televangelist and preacher, died on Tuesday at the age of 90 after suffering from cardiac arrest. Swaggart's official Facebook page shared the news of his death on Tuesday.