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USA Today reports:
TV evangelist Rev. Jimmy Swaggart remained clinging to life at a Louisiana hospital on Monday, June 17, after suffering a cardiac arrest over the weekend with only a miracle likely to save him, his family said.
“I wish I could tell you that (he’s) recovering and things are going better but there has been no change,” his son Donnie Swaggart, co-pastor at Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, said in a video released online after visiting his father in the hospital. “The bottom line is that without a miracle … that’s the only thing we can hope for.”
At age 90, the Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism, was hospitalized in critical condition after suffering the medical episode June 15, family members said during a prayer service.
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Disgraced televangelist @JimmyLSwaggart is fighting for his life in a Louisiana hospital following an early Sunday morning cardiac arrest.
Once a hit Gospel singer, the pastor in Baton Rouge, age 90, tarnished his reputation following a 1980s sex scandal.https://t.co/b6UdMubkj7
— Julie Roys (@reachjulieroys) June 17, 2025
3 Things to Know: Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart in critical condition after cardiac arrest, streaming viewership hits a major milestone and researchers say you may need to rethink your daily coffee habit. https://t.co/9konHd4QH6 pic.twitter.com/HdJnLj1ABq
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) June 17, 2025
One of my favorite televangelist trivia tidbits is that there is a plaque at the spot Jimmy swaggart got caught with a prostitute in 1991. I insisted we pull off the freeway to see it on a family trip lol pic.twitter.com/MPfpupXldO
— Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) June 12, 2025