Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart in critical condition after cardiac arrest

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is successful captious information aft helium went into cardiac apprehension implicit the weekend, according to a connection from his ministry. 

Swaggart, 90, went into cardiac apprehension astir 8 a.m. Sunday portion astatine his location successful Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his son, Donnie Swaggart, said. Donnie Swaggart said that "without a miracle, his clip volition beryllium short."

Donnie Swaggart said during a Sunday nighttime work that, earlier EMTs arrived, helium and his member took turns giving their begetter thorax compressions, but "he ne'er regained consciousness."

"Emergency unit responded swiftly and were capable to revive his heartbeat earlier transporting him to the hospital. He remains successful the ICU, wherever helium is nether adjacent aesculapian care," a spokesperson for Jimmy Swaggart Ministries said.

Jimmy Swaggart is 1 of the country's best-known televangelists. The laminitis of his eponymous ministry, helium began preaching connected the vigor successful the aboriginal 1960s. He is the laminitis of the Family Worship Center successful Baton Rouge, wherever his household continues to preach, and his ministry besides runs the SonLife Broadcasting Network, which broadcasts the Family Worship Center's services.

Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart speaks astatine the ceremonial work for his cousin, stone and rotation pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, successful Ferriday, La., Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022. Gerald Herbert / AP

Jimmy Swaggart made nationalist headlines successful 1988 erstwhile helium was photographed extracurricular a New Orleans-area edifice with a enactment worker. He tearfully admitted to sinning earlier his congregation during a unrecorded tv broadcast, though helium did not specify that helium had solicited a prostitute. The incidental led to him being defrocked by the Assemblies of God, though helium continued to preach.

Three years later, helium was again recovered with a prostitute, this clip successful Indio, California, according to The Associated Press. He told his congregation that God said to him, "You archer them that Thursday greeting you'll beryllium making tv programs," adding: "The Lord told maine it's level nary of your business," The AP reported.

Jimmy Swaggart has besides recorded gospel euphony and is the relative of the precocious stone and rotation fable Jerry Lee Lewis. Swaggart spoke astatine Lewis' funeral, and 1 of Lewis' last records was a gospel medium helium recorded with Jimmy Swaggart that was released conscionable a fewer months earlier Lewis' death.