Swaggart’s Fall Echoes in El Salvador
Thirty Salvadoran schools relying on donations from the Assemblies of God church are in financial trouble because of television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart’s fall from grace, a church official said Thursday.
Joaquin Edgardo Garcia said that $100,000 in pledges had dried up since the Assemblies of God church suspended Swaggart after a scandal in which he was alleged to have had a tryst with a prostitute.
“We are in trouble. Brother Swaggart was the largest contributor to our programs here,” he said.
He said the church administers 30 colleges teaching more than 18,000 students in predominantly Roman Catholic El Salvador.
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