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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 July 1 at age 90.

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Swaggart died at the age of 90 in Baton Rouge, LA—two weeks after his son, Donnie, revealed he was in the hospital.

Kenneth Colley, the British actor who played Admiral Piett in the original Star Wars series and Jesus in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, died June 30 at his home in Kent, England, after contracting ...

Jimmy Swaggart, one of the country's best-known televangelists, gave an emotional apology after he was caught in a sex ...

Jimmy Swaggart, the televangelist whose multimillion-dollar ministry was crippled by his encounters with prostitutes, has died. He was 90.

Peter-Henry Schroeder, who played roles as diverse as a producer in the Oscar-winning Argo and a Klingon in Star Trek: Enterprise, passed away peacefully with his family at his side on June 7 at Lake ...

Jimmy Swaggart, infamous and scandal-ridden televangelist, dead at 90 Swaggart was brought down by his affection for sex workers.

The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, who built one of the nation's biggest broadcast ministries in the 1980s from his Baton Rouge ...

Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist felled by sex scandal, dies at 90 The Louisiana preacher became one of the most popular and polarizing Christian televangelists of his generation.