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February 25: On This Day in World History … briefly
Sexual scandals with prostitutes in the late 1980s and early 1990s led the Assemblies of God to defrock him.
1998: TV Evangelist suffers severe ‘moral failure’
American television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart was banned from preaching for a year by the Protestant elders of the Assemblies of God, after being photographed with a prostitute.
Swaggart confessed to ‘moral failure’ from the pulpit at his Family Worship Centre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He had been visiting the woman in question for three years at a house with a sign in the window saying ‘Positively no refunds after 15 minutes’.
Most notable historic snippets or facts extracted from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London, as well as additional supplementary information extracted from Wikipedia.
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