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“His heart was still for the work of God and for the Gospel to continue reaching the world,” his wife said in a statement Brian Brant is an associate editor for the human interest team at PEOPLE. He's ...

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The infamous figure built a multimillion dollar empire as a televangelist in the ‘70s and ‘80s Judy Walker/Shutterstock Televangelist Jim Bakker served five years in prison after his 1989 fraud ...

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Bakker spent four and a half years in prison after being convicted in 1989 of defrauding followers in a scheme involving holidays at his Christian theme park The US televangelist Jim Bakker, who built ...

Jim Bakker, the televangelist who came to be known across the country in the 1970s and 80s, died at the age of 86. His wife, Lori Bakker, shared the news of his passing in a Facebook post.

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Jim Bakker, the charismatic evangelical preacher who built a Christian television empire, only to see it collapse in scandal, recrimination and prison, died Monday, his wife said. He was 86. “It is ...