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The service for the American Pentecostal preacher and gospel music artist will take place at a church in Baton Rouge. He died ...
The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who built one of the nation's biggest broadcast ministries in the 1980s from his Baton Rouge ...
A Jimmy Swaggart Ministries spokesperson said the family expects a "packed house" for founder Jimmy Swaggart's wake Saturday ...
Funeral arrangements have been set for Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who died Tuesday at the age of 90. A public viewing and wake will ...
Swaggart died at the age of 90 in Baton Rouge, LA—two weeks after his son, Donnie, revealed he was in the hospital.
Jimmy Swaggart, one of the most popular and enduring of the 1980s televangelists, died on July 1, 2025, but his legacy lives.
Swaggart had two cousins who made it big in music: rock ’n’ roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis & country star Mickey Gilley.
The announcement comes after Swaggart suffered a cardiac arrest at his Baton Rouge home and was hospitalized in mid-June.
In this personal reflection former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner and Secretary of State Jim Brown recalls the early days ...
Louisiana Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who headlined the Golden Age of Televangelists in the 1980s before an adultery scandal ...
Swaggart’s confession remained one of the top stories in Baton Rouge for weeks on end, and across the country.
Family and church leaders say the 90-year-old televangelist went into cardiac arrest Sunday. His condition remains critical.