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A religious fraud watchdog group in Texas has been looking into the high-cost use of private jets by wealthy televangelists and faith healers in the state. As reported by Houston-area outlet Chron in ...

When outrage wins the algorithm, what does faith become? This live conversation from the RNS Symposium at Trinity Commons wrestles with a bracing question: when faith, power and platform collapse into ...

Sen. Chuck Grassley's investigation of televangelists finished with no penalties for the pastors who did not cooperate and found no definitive instances of wrongdoing, the Associated Press reports.

~ The university also settled a wrongful termination lawsuit with a professor TULSA, Okla. -- Two televangelists have resigned their posts as regents at Oral Roberts University, as the debt-ridden ...

The world of modern ministry has grown well beyond the humble lifestyle generally associated with the devoutly religious. For some pastors and televangelists, it has become a pathway to extraordinary ...

The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor’s living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches.

DURING MY childhood, almost every summer a big tent would go up in or near our neighborhood and remain for at least a week, and sometimes two or three. It wasn’t the circus, but in a way it was just ...

Jimmy Swaggart, one of the most popular and enduring of the 1980s televangelists, died on July 1, 2025, but his legacy lives. Along with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, he drew an audience in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev. Jimmy Swaggart preaches at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena on March 29, 1987. AP Photo/Mark Avery, file Jimmy Swaggart, ...