{"id":872749,"date":"2026-10-06T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872749\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:18:08","slug":"jim-bakker-disgraced-televangelist-who-went-to-prison-dies-at-86-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/872749\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Bakker, disgraced televangelist who went to prison, dies at 86 &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxNYnlnYnBVN19JT09NT3dyS2lZcWZJWWJheDhoQS1GZmFWeTI3SUpDSmZ0clA3SU5UV3l2OS1nVkdnZXp6V3NzQVpyYjVhMW42T1haY1pkcUMybmZzTEVRY25rOXRNU0xWREdrb2JRSmVSQ2dXV2xBbmJtXzkxdm53SFdCU1BNZmZ3czMyaXdMWHZVdFowVDRlb3VhZGo?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jim Bakker, disgraced televangelist who went to prison, dies at 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington Post<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMidkFVX3lxTE9UM0VUTmRDQXlEeE9rbkhIQWx2b3ZtTGhack41WHdfR3owc3kycV90V2pHZEZVakJ2dW1XeWoySkhOOFZKTW9ydWZSbTI2VXVkdVBmT0FFX3I2SW1xREU2LXpXTlNfR1pIODBHdU1YQnRBVmpLc3c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Televangelist Jim Bakker, who built a faith-based empire before resigning amid scandal, dies at 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CNN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivwFBVV95cUxPVE92eHVJNkp0X3J3Wi11aTdOYmx3WU84dFB3UnNIVGpoRmRwLWhLbUI1R2M3QWJsWFNOSzM1T215MkpUYkcxRndCcUcxNGNBSlpKeTlkRU1DWnRRTF9FbmlTb2NsMmNUYmNpVzVLdGdOZFhrRVNzRUozVW11dGluOFplU01UOHFNY2xLQkxSR010TzhId2UwcFpSNV9FOEdIR2JFNVNEYzdrZU8xMTU5aVh0SXY5bXJGbEhFOEZFNA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jim Bakker, who lost his televangelism empire in sex and money scandals, dies at 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;WCIV<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiakFVX3lxTE5tRVk0T0hadVp6dXdpN0QyZEE2MnZjT21tYzFtVC00MHlfd0w1UVp6dnRwZGdTRjFlMHFDSjhiUWFZMGxrQnpmMEotMk80aGF0OGZZeVQ4ZktMaFlSV0VFdDlzNkZDVHJpYUE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jim Bakker, Television Preacher Felled by Sex and Financial Scandals, Dies at 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The New York Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirgFBVV95cUxQRl80Vk9QMzFiWHJ4M29ZLWdzQ0lVU18ydW0wOVZ1aTZLUFBCY00tb0FVV0NWUEsyc1pRWEREVWRENG5QZHdjWk9KUC1wVzMxTkhxb3IxVmxlaEkybDFnQm5ZTEhGTVNMX1RJTkcxZzlzRGVCYm5wd1J1dXl2c3QzWVRURmZtT29wSDVRejZRYk92OGxVbEowN2IyZFN2eHJheDQxOHktNGJTZllZOEE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jim Bakker, whose PTL ministry fell to scandal and fraud, dies at 86<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Bakker, disgraced televangelist who went to prison, dies at 86&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington PostTelevangelist Jim Bakker, who built a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-872749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}