Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Jimmy Swaggart on stage during a "crusade" at the Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland, on Sept. 28, 1986. (Sharon Farmer / The ...

As he barnstormed across America, Jimmy Swaggart would prowl the stage like a born-again Mick Jagger, all swagger as he strutted, bellowed, banged on a piano, spoke in tongues and – in a pitch he ...

He built an empire from a gospel and a guitar. Then came the tears. Jimmy Swaggart, the fiery televangelist who preached to millions before a stunning public downfall shook his ministry, has died. He ...

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 ...

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.