CHARLOTTE — TV reruns starring Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker? “Best of PTL” DVDs?
Either could happen, said an Atlanta investment banker who plans to sell 15,000 hours of original videotapes from the old PTL Club TV shows at an auction next month.
Ben Dyer, president of Gospel Properties, said he has heard from several possible bidders. [...]
PTL ministry might see new life on cable TV
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · News
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With son’s sex arrest queries resurfaces about Bishop T. D. Jakes’s sexuality
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · News
When preachers pontificate too much from On High about the sins of homosexual sex, the cautionary tale is to be careful of what you say, because your words invariably will come back to bite you, as we have seen with fallen evangelical star Pastor Ted Haggard.
For Bishop T. D. Jakes, the internationally known African American [...]
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St. Petersburg evangelist Bill Keller pushes back at the IRS
February 24th, 2009 · No Comments · News
Never one to mince words, St. Petersburg evangelist Bill Keller has a message for the Internal Revenue Service: strip him of his tax exemption or leave him alone.
The agency has been investigating Keller, 51, for a year after he equated voting for former presidential candidate Mitt Romney with casting a vote for Satan.
Keller’s struggle with [...]
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FBI: Girls Told Agent Evangelist Alamo Abused Them
December 5th, 2008 · No Comments · News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Before evangelist Tony Alamo’s arrest on federal sex charges, three girls who lived at his Arkansas compound told an FBI agent that he had sexually abused them, and one said he had threatened to have “someone take care of you” if she talked, according to a newly unsealed FBI affidavit.
Two [...]
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Bail Denied For Arkansas Evangelist in Sex Abuse Case
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · News
TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) — A federal magistrate called Tony Alamo a flight risk Wednesday as he ordered the evangelist held without bail until his trial on charges that he took a minor across state lines for sex.
The ruling came after Alamo’s former followers testified at a hearing that they were often beaten at his instructions [...]
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