KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ Roe Messner mourned his beloved Tammy Faye but knew better than to draw it out too long. His wife, the former Tammy Faye Bakker, wouldn't have liked it.

Tammy Faye Messner, who as Tammy Faye Bakker helped her husband, Jim, build a multimillion-dollar evangelism empire and then saw it collapse in disgrace, has died. She was 65.

By Baird Helgeson and Michelle Bearden, Tampa Tribune, Fla. Jul. 1--Worshippers at Without Walls International Church are accustomed to seeing the offering collected two or three times each service.

The Rev. Jerry Falwell was stricken at his campus office and died Tuesday after a career in which the evangelist used the power of television to transform the religious right into a mighty force in American politics. He was 73.

The Rev. Jerry Falwell, the television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University. He was 73.