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Joyce Meyer is a prominent American televangelist, author, and speaker known for her dynamic teaching style and practical approach to Christian living. Her ministry grew in popularity throughout the 1990s...

Benny Hinn is a televangelist, faith healer, and author known for his “miracle crusades” that are held in major cities and broadcast on his Christian television show This Is Your Day. Hinn frequently espouses...

Jim Bakker is an American televangelist, best remembered as the cohost, with his wife Tammy Faye Bakker, of the television talk show The PTL Club (also called The Jim and Tammy Show). He began his career...

Tammy Faye Messner was an American televangelist and singer best remembered as the diminutive wife of Jim Bakker and as his cohost on the television talk show The PTL Club (also called The Jim and Tammy...

Jerry Falwell was an American religious leader, televangelist, and founder of the Moral Majority, a political organization for the promotion of conservative social values. Although his grandfather and...

Joel Osteen is an American televangelist, theologian, speaker, and author who has attracted millions of followers with his simple and positive sermons and his best-selling books. Osteen’s parents founded...

Jimmy Swaggart is an American televangelist and gospel music performer. He was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1988 after a sex scandal involving prostitutes. Swaggart’s father was a sharecropper...

Pat Robertson was an American evangelist who was noted for his conservative views. He founded (1960) what became the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), which aired his talk show, The 700 Club. Robertson...