The Nation - News from May 2, 1988

The Christian Broadcasting Network dropped two of TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart’s shows, depriving him of access to 39.9 million households. Earl Weirich, a spokesman for the Virginia Beach, Va.-based network, said that Swaggart’s hourlong Sunday church service and his half-hour Bible study show that aired weekdays had been dropped after Swaggart refused to honor a one-year suspension imposed by leaders of the national Assemblies of God church. Swaggart in February tearfully confessed to an unstated moral failing, after church elders received photographs of Swaggart at a New Orleans motel with a prostitute. Swaggart has said he will return to preaching on May 22.