Louisiana-based televangelist Jimmy Swaggart — whose popularity peaked in the 80s — died Tuesday in a Baton Rouge hospital. He was 90. According to reports, Swaggart suffered a heart attack in his ...

Jimmy Swaggart, one of the most popular and enduring of the 1980s televangelists, died on July 1, 2025, but his legacy lives. Along with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, he drew an audience in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Swaggart, who was caught in a 1988 sex scandal, preached for decades after he first launched his ministry in the '50s Jimmy Swaggart, famed Pentecostal televangelist and preacher, has died at the age ...

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 ...

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