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The family of eminent televangelist Le Reverend Jimmy Swaggart said that he remains hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest.
During a Sunday service, Swaggart’s son, Reverend Donnie Swaggart, asked the congregation to keep his father in their prayers, saying that only a “miracle” could extend the life of his father.
“In this Father’s Day, we are asking you urgently to pray for brother Swaggart. He needs a miracle from heaven at the moment, this morning. We must intervene in this situation, and we need your prayers,” wrote Donnie Swaggart in an article on her father’s Facebook page.
“It is my rock and my hero and he needs the lord’s healing power today. If I am able to escape, I will try to be at the service to give everyone an update,” wrote Donnie Swaggart in another article.
The eminent evangelist, the Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, 90, was hospitalized in critical condition after having suffered a cardiac arrest on June 15, members of his family shared during a Sunday service on Father’s Day. (Getty Images)
Reverend Jimmy Swaggart preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ On television longer than any other American evangelist in history, according to his website of the ministry.
Swaggart, born March 15, 1935, in Ferriday, Louisiana, was launched in the full -time ministry in 1955. He was the pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and is the founder of Jimmy Swaggart Ministry.
Jimmy Swaggart (Photo by Thomas S. England / Getty Images)
At its peak in the mid -1980s, Swaggart was the best rated television preacher in the country. Its services were broadcast in more than 2 million households.
However, his image was bruised after being linked to a 1987 scandal involving a prostitute whom he met in a shab for New Orleans.
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Reverend Jimmy Swaggart asks for the forgiveness of God as he resigns from his ministry after allegations of sexual misconduct. (Photo taken from the video band provided by the Jimmy Swaggart ministry in WBRZ-TV)
Swaggart has never admitted anything more than a sinned sin during a television excuse in which he delivered his “fishing speech” in tears.
A few years later, he was arrested by the police while he was driving in California with a prostitute suspected in his car.
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Swaggart also made the headlines for having said in a television cult that he would kill all gay who looked at him romantically. Swaggart said he had commenting jokingly and did not mean any harm.
Fox News Digital contacted Swaggart representatives to comment but did not immediately receive an answer.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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