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BBC News
19 hours ago
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- BBC News
Jimmy Swaggart, ogbonge televangelist wey die at di age of 90 bin make news for im following and scandal
US televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, don die at di age of 90 years. Di family say di preacher bin dey intensive care for hospital afta im bin suffer heart attack for im house for Baton Rouge on 15 June. "For ova seven decades, Brother Swaggart bin pour out im life to preach di gospel, sing songs of faith, and point millions to di saving power of Jesus Christ and di Baptism of di Holy Spirit," im church tok for inside statement as dem confam im death. Dis na tins you need to know about di Ogbonge American evangelist. Life and times of Jimmy Swaggart Oga Swaggart bin start to broadcast sermons in di 1960s and become a pioneer of televangelism, wey extend im his success into a media empire until one sex scandal ssata eviritin. For im peak in di 1980s, Oga Swaggart broadcast bin dey reach millions of viewers for more dan 100 kontris and e bring in $140 million a year, along wit sales of gospel albums and branded items wey range from bible study manuals to remake of Jesus crown of thorns. Im bin describe imself as an "old-fashioned, Holy Ghost-filled, shouting, weeping, soul-winning, Gospel-preaching preacher" to di media. Im Family Worship Center for Baton Rouge dey sit 7,000 pipo, wia im dey conduct im intense services. Worshipers often dey cry and sometimes speak in tongues - na sign of deep devotion for American Pentecostal faith wey Oga Swaggart bin dey practice. Im bin dey like to preach about di eternal struggle between good and evil, wey bin include sermons against temptations of di flesh. For 1988, wen im been dey reign well-well, photographers bin snap oga Swaggart for New Orleans wit a sex worker. Di fallout increase afta im bin address di incident wit im congregation. For one televised appearance, im bin beg for forgiveness for im sins as tears roll down for im face. "To di hundreds of millions wey I don stand bifor … I don sin against una, and I dey beg una to forgive me," im tok. "I don sin against you, my Lord." Oga Swaggart bifor dis mata bin dey highly critical of oda high-profile preachers, especially those wey get similar scandals. Im bin also make controversial comments about Catholicism and Judaism, e call dem illegitimate faiths. Tori be say dem catch again wit a sex worker again three years later, dis time na for California. Im bin no too apologise like im bin do for di first one, "di Lord bin tell me say na none of una business," na so im tok for one broadcast. Afta di New Orleans scandal, dem comot Oga Swaggart from di ultra-conservative Assemblies of God, one association of Pentecostal churches. Religious network drop im programs and di size of im ministry, wey once be a major employer for Louisiana, shrink. Legal troubles wey get to do wit tax payments further drain im resources.
Times
a day ago
- Times
Jimmy Swaggart obituary: TV evangelist brought down by sex scandal
When Jimmy Swaggart, a fire-and-brimstone American televangelist, denounced Marvin Gorman, his fellow pastor at the Assemblies of God, for adultery in 1986, he forgot Christ's words in John's Gospel: 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.' In October the following year, Gorman received a call from a private detective he had hired to follow Swaggart. His nemesis was with a prostitute in a seedy motel room on the outskirts of New Orleans and the gumshoe had let down Swaggart's car tyres to allow Gorman time to come over. On arriving, he found America's best-known preacher on his knees, not in prayer but trying to fit the spare wheel. Backwards. When Gorman confronted him, Swaggart pleaded for mercy, not something he had shown to Gorman, nor to Jim Bakker, another preacher whom Swaggart had brought down over a tryst with a 21-year-old church secretary. He offered Gorman and his family jobs with his own church, which Gorman turned down. He then promised to admit his sins to the church authorities.
Sky News
a day ago
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- Sky News
Jimmy Swaggart: Pioneer televangelist dies aged 90
Jimmy Swaggart - a pioneer of televangelism in the US - has died aged 90. Last month, the American Pentecostal preacher suffered a cardiac arrest at his home in Louisiana and was taken to a local hospital. His death was announced on Tuesday on his public Facebook page, though no cause of death was given. At one point, Mr Swaggart was the most famous TV evangelist in the US - preaching the word of God to millions of followers at home and abroad. But his vast audience dwindled when he was caught on camera with a prostitute in 1988. Mr Swaggart was serving as a co-pastor of the Family Worship Centre in Baton Rouge when he died. He was born in 1935 - and "after a dramatic salvation experience at the age of eight, felt the call of God on his life." According to his website: "He spent hours reading the Bible, praying, and, after a certain revival meeting, decided to ask God for the talent to play the piano." Mr Swaggart's first album, Some Golden Daybreak, was released in 1958. Since then, 17 million recordings have been sold. The Grammy-nominated pastor took up evangelistic work full-time in 1954 and was ordained by the Assemblies of God in 1961. He preached the gospel on TV for longer than any other American evangelist, according to his ministry's website. The Campmeeting Hour, Mr Swaggart's first radio programme, aired in 1969 - and within five years, the show was broadcasting on 700 radio stations in the US. His career in TV started in 1973 with the 30-minute weekly programme, The Jimmy Swaggart Evangelistic Association Presents Jimmy Swaggart, also known as the Jimmy Swaggart telecast. In 2010, Mr Swaggart launched the SonLife Broadcasting Network (SBN), a 24-hour Christian channel. Prostitute scandals He was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1988 after pictures surfaced of him with a prostitute. The pictures were handed in by rival TV evangelist Marvin Gorman, who was also defrocked after Mr Swaggart accused him of "immoral dalliances" in 1986. Following the scandal, Mr Swaggart delivered his famous "I have sinned" speech in front of a congregation of 7,000 in Baton Rouge, where he sobbed and asked for his wife's forgiveness, while falling short of detailing what his sin was. Mr Swaggart carried on as an independent Pentecostal preacher - but in 1991, he was found by police in California in the company of another prostitute after being stopped for a traffic violation.
BBC News
2 days ago
- BBC News
US televangelist Jimmy Swaggart dies at 90
US televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, whose multi-million dollar ministry with a global reach was crippled after a sex scandal, has died at the age of 90."For over seven decades, Brother Swaggart poured out his life preaching the gospel, singing songs of the faith, and pointing millions to the saving power of Jesus Christ and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit," his church Swaggart had gone into cardiac arrest at his home in Baton Rouge on 15 June. He was taken to hospital in critical condition, his family said. Mr Swaggart began broadcasting sermons via radio in the 1960s and became a pioneer of televangelism, parlaying his success into a media empire until a sex scandal derailed it all.
