BREAKING: Televangelist Jim Bakker dies at age of 86 as he’s finished ‘race with faith’

We’ll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.(Image: Getty Images)Famous televangelist Jim Bakker died at the age of 86 and is remembered as a “pioneer of Christian television.”Bakker, who previously built a Christian TV empire in the 1970s and 80s with his first wife Tammy Faye before it crumbled from scandalous controversy, died on Monday, October 5.