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 ...

Rev. Jimmy Swaggart on stage during a "crusade" at the Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland, on Sept. 28, 1986. (Sharon Farmer / The Washington Post via Getty Images file) Jimmy Swaggart, the prolific ...

(The Conversation) — Swaggart’s calls for a return to conservative Christian norms live on in today’s world of tradwives, limited access to abortion and calls to repeal gay marriage, writes a scholar ...

FILE - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart speaks at the funeral service for his cousin, rock and roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, in Ferriday, La., Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file) BATON ...

The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart has died at age 90, his loved ones announced on his public social media page. At his peak in the mid-1980s, Swaggart was the country’s top-rated TV preacher with an audience of ...

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart died yesterday. He’ll be remembered in many ways—as a charismatic preacher and talented singer (Swaggart was Jerry Lee Lewis’ cousin). But perhaps his most lasting legacy ...

SPRINGFIELD, MO – One of the most prominent, controversial religious figures of the 1980s has died. The family of Jimmy Swaggart announced the preacher passed away on Tuesday at the age of 90. He was ...

Thousands are expected to attend the funeral services for the late televangelist Jimmy Swaggart in Louisiana this weekend, a family spokesperson confirmed to USA TODAY. The two-day service will take ...

Jimmy Swaggart, the prolific evangelist who died Tuesday at age 90, will be remembered in part for his tearful, snotty apology to his congregation in 1988 after he was linked to a prostitute. But ...