Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands are expected to attend the funeral services for the late televangelist Jimmy Swaggart in Louisiana this weekend, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jimmy Swaggart, the Louisiana preacher who built one of the largest televangelist ministries in the 1980s before becoming ...

July 1 (UPI) --Jimmy Swaggart, the Louisiana preacher who built one of the largest televangelist ministries in the 1980s before becoming embroiled in a sex scandal, died Tuesday at the age of 90.

Jimmy Swaggart, a televangelist and gospel singer whose fall from grace in the late 1980s made national headlines, has died, according to a social media post published by his ministry. He was 90.