On This Date: Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart Died at 90
Plus, North Carolina churches serve local communities, USC uses AI for Bible translation, and more.
One Year Ago: On July 1, MinistryWatch reported that Jimmy Swaggart, a televangelist and gospel singer whose fall from grace in the late 1980s made national headlines, died at age 90. Read more here. 
Two Years Ago: On July 9, 2024, MinistryWatch reported about the “ServeNC” initiative, in which more than 1,000 churches from across North Carolina pledged to take part in a statewide initiative in early August to serve their local communities. A total of 1,169 churches participated in the effort. Read more here.
Three Years Ago: On July 6, 2023, MinistryWatch reported about researchers at USC who are using artificial intelligence to translate the Bible into rare languages, targeting “very low-resource languages that are not even in the top 500.” Read more here.
Four Years Ago: On July 5, 2022, MinistryWatch reported about the continuing work of pregnancy resource centers after the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization returned the abortion issue to the states. Read more here.
Five Years Ago: On July 2, 2021, MinistryWatch reported about the settlement reached by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) with the largest groups of sex-abuse victims. The deal will require the BSA to put $850 million in a fund that will compensate tens of thousands of victims, according to the Wall Street Journal. Read more here.
Six Years Ago: On July 9, 2020, MinistryWatch reported that Little Sisters of the Poor claimed victory at the U.S. Supreme Court after the Court upheld 7-2 the Trump administration’s contraceptive exemption. Read more here.
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