Jimmy Swaggart, US televangelist brought down by scandal, dies aged 90 | US news

Jimmy Swaggart, a tremendous follow -up and multimillion dollar minister, died of re -withdrawal of sex workers only with their revelation of payment to sex workers. He was 90 years old.

Swaggart died for decades after once decreased its wide audience and became a fist line on TV late at night. His death was announced on Tuesday on the public facebook page. Although it was healthy, no reason was given.

The Louisiana native was known as a fascinating pentecostal preacher with a great follow -up, one of the successful TV preachers brought by sex scandals in the 1980s and 90s before he was caught on camera with a sex worker in New Orleans in 1988. He has been serving for decades for decades, but with a reduced audience.

The Swaggart collapse, crying and apologizing, but did not refer to the connection with a sex worker in the tear in 1988 capsuted.

Im I have sinned against you, Swaggart said to the communists around the country. I’m begging you to forgive me.

He said that the church had solved him because he rejected the punishment he ordered for “moral failure .. The church asked him to enter a two -year rehabilitation program, including preaching for a year.

Swaggart said he knew he was inevitable to dismiss, but insisted that he had no choice but to leave the church to save his ministry and Bible College.

Swaggart’s messages confused thousands of communities and millions of TV viewers and made it a home name until the end of the 1980s. The contributions, Jimmy Swaggart ministries established an estimated $ 142 million in 1986.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, complex still includes a worship center and broadcasting and recording facilities.

Swaggart said that his earnings were wounded in 1987 by a former church secretary in the PTL Organization of the Sex Scandal and Bakker, who surrounded his rival television player Jim Bakker.