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The disgraced TV preacher says he's out of money and wants his viewers to pony up to save his ministry and his home.
Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker has pleaded for viewers to send him $1 million, saying his ministry will be shut down if he doesn’t get the funds. Bakker, who was at the heart of a notorious ...
The rise and downfall of televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker is the focus of a new 20/20 special titled “Unfaithfully Yours,” and in this exclusive clip from the episode, Ted Koppel ...
March 19, 1987 On this day, television evangelist Jim Bakker stepped down from his PTL ministry, which he built into a $129 million enterprise that included both a broadcast network and a 2,300 ...
Jim and Tammy Fae Bakker ruled as king and queen of Christian televangelists — until their empire came crashing down. There were ugly sexual revelations, including hush money doled out to a ...
Three decades after his PTL empire near Charlotte crumbled amid financial and sex scandals, Jim Bakker is back on TV with a different, darker message: The Apocalypse is coming and you better get ...
Famed televangelist Jim Bakker recently had a stroke, his wife said. His eponymous TV show will continue to film without him while he recovers. Lori Bakker announced her 80-year-old husband would ...
If all you have to eat is the survivalist food you bought from televangelist Jim Bakker in 2015, then your situation may be considerably worse. Jim Bakker is back, with a television ministry in ...
FORT MILL, S.C. It was a chilly January night in 1987, and then-PTL president Jim Bakker had invited top leaders from York County to Heritage USA, his Christian theme park in Fort Mill. He wanted ...
Televangelist Jim Bakker held up a blue and silver bottle, gazing intently at the label, as he questioned the woman sitting next to him. "This influenza that is now circling the globe," Bakker ...
Televangelist Jim Bakker suggests that if you want to survive the end of days, the best thing you could do is buy one of his cabins in Missouri's Ozark Mountains. And while you're at it ...