Post by: susan on October 06, 2026, 10:30:43 AM
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful The PTL Club TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.
Source: Jim Bakker, televangelist who built The PLT Club, dead at 86 (https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jim-bakker-obit-9.7370503?cmp=rss)