{"id":60321,"date":"2025-10-08T03:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/60321\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T03:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T03:42:06","slug":"dolly-partons-sister-asks-fans-to-pray-for-country-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/60321\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton’s sister asks fans to pray for country singer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolly Parton’s sister has asked fans to pray for the American country singer, who last week postponed a forthcoming Las Vegas residency due to unspecified health issues.<\/p>\n

The 79-year-old country music legend has delayed the December concerts, telling fans she needs “a few procedures” to deal with ongoing “health challenges”.<\/p>\n

“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly,” Freida Parton wrote on Facebook. “Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately.”<\/p>\n

“I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.”<\/p>\n

Freida ended her message on an upbeat note.<\/p>\n

“She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine,” she wrote.<\/p>\n

“Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you!”<\/p>\n

Parton had been scheduled to perform six shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in December.<\/p>\n

But she postponed the gigs until September next year<\/a>, explaining she wouldn’t have enough time to rehearse for them.<\/p>\n

Parton did not disclose the nature of her health issues, but she was recently forced to pull out of a Dollywood event after being diagnosed with a kidney stone that she said was causing “a lot of problems”.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, she lost her beloved husband Carl Dean<\/a> after nearly 60 years of marriage.<\/p>\n

She later dedicated a new song, If You Hadn’t Been There, to his memory.<\/p>\n

The musician is best known for a string of country crossover hits including Coat of Many Colors, I Will Always Love You, 9 To 5 and Jolene.<\/p>\n

Her Las Vegas stint would have been her first visit to the Strip since the 1990s, when she performed alongside her Islands In The Stream duet partner, Kenny Rogers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton’s sister has asked fans to pray for the American country singer, who last week postponed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-60321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}