Three decades after his PTL empire near Charlotte crumbled amid financial and sex scandals, Jim Bakker is back on TV with a different, darker message: The Apocalypse is coming and you better get ready ...

TV pastor Jim Bakker suffered a stroke recently and has taken a break from his show to recuperate, his wife, Lori Bakker, confirmed on Friday. Bakker’s son, Jay Bakker, described the stroke as “minor” ...

TV pastor Jim Bakker appeared on the national show he hosts with his wife for the first time Wednesday since suffering a stroke in May. After the stroke, Bakker took what his wife, Lori Bakker, ...

The Oscar nominee portrays the late televangelist in the new movie The Eyes of Tammy Faye What started out as a mission to spread God's word turned into a scandal and years of public mockery for Tammy ...

It takes just over 40 minutes for the new biographical film about Tammy Faye Bakker to reach its final destination of Charlotte, North Carolina, where the co-founder of the infamous PTL Club set up ...

This story originally was published April 1, 1988. The Charlotte Observer won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service Thursday for revealing misuse of funds by Jim and Tammy Bakker’s ...

Columbia, South Carolina is hot during the summer, such that the City adopted the motto “Famously Hot” a few years ago. Temperatures frequently exceed 100 degrees in the summer. On June 12, 1987, the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tammy Faye Messner's remains have been buried. So, too, have Jerry Falwell's. And slowly, the remnants of PTL are being buried, too. The PTL Club — standing for "Praise The Lord" or ...

Praise the Lord and pass the mascara — Elton John’s musical about Tammy Faye Bakker is coming to Broadway. “Tammy Faye,” the show about the late Charlotte-area televangelist and gay icon, debuted in ...

What happened to Jim Bakker after the fall of PTL? The PTL empire preacher Jim Bakker built with wife Tammy Bakker crumbled 30 years ago, after financial and sex scandals. Now, televangelist Bakker is ...