Now 78, with a white beard, Bakker is no longer the sunny, baby-faced preacher who co-hosted “The PTL Club” in the 1970s and ’80s with then-wife Tammy. She did the singing back then, often while ...

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” ...

The PTL Club, later called The Jim and Tammy Show, and in its last days PTL Today and Heritage Today, was a Christian television program first hosted by evangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, which ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...