PTL Club

Jim Bakker, the televangelist and former PTL Club host who became one of the most recognisable figures of American broadcast Christianity before his 1989 fraud conviction, has died at the age of 86, according to a report from The Alabama Baptist. The same roundup notes continued reflections on the September 11 attacks and commentary on a 'paradigm for successful parenting'. Further details about the death have not yet been widely confirmed.

Jim Bakker, the American televangelist whose PTL ministry collapsed amid a sex and financial scandal that led to his fraud conviction, has died at the age of 86. The former host of the PTL Club built one of the largest Christian broadcasting empires of the 1970s and 1980s before its downfall. Obituaries and tributes are circulating widely as news of his death spreads.

US televangelist Jim Bakker has died at the age of 86, prompting renewed attention to the scandals that defined his career. Bakker, once one of America's most prominent TV preachers, was convicted of fraud in 1989 after his PTL Club ministry collapsed amid revelations of a sexual encounter with Jessica Hahn and misuse of ministry funds. Obituaries are revisiting his fall from grace and later attempted comeback.

Jim Bakker, the American televangelist and former PTL Club host, is drawing fresh attention in the United States. Beyond his long history as a prominent and controversial religious broadcaster, no specific new development is confirmed in the available reporting. His past scandals, television ministry and public statements have repeatedly made him a recurring subject of public discussion.

Jim Bakker, the American televangelist and television host best known for 'The PTL Club', died Monday night at age 86. Bakker built a sprawling broadcast ministry before his career collapsed in a financial and sexual scandal in the late 1980s that led to a fraud conviction and prison time, making him one of the most controversial figures in American religious broadcasting.

Jim Bakker, the American televangelist who built the PTL Club into a broadcasting empire before losing it in sex and financial scandals that led to his imprisonment for fraud, has died at the age of 86. His death closes a chapter on one of the most notorious downfall stories in American religious broadcasting.

Jim Bakker, the American televangelist best known for the PTL Club ministry and for the scandal that led to his imprisonment in the late 1980s, has reportedly died at the age of 86, according to early news reports. Reaction is beginning to build as outlets pass along the announcement and remembrances of his long and controversial career in broadcast religion.