| A Christian TV powerhouse dies Joni Lamb, the co-founder of Daystar Television Network, a prominent Christian television ministry, died Thursday at age 65. She founded Daystar in 1993, with her first husband, Marcus Lamb. The two became beloved figures in Christian broadcasting and were known for their work on racial reconciliation, as RNS national reporters Bob Smietana and Kathryn Post write. However, their ministry experienced a series of controversies after Marcus Lamb’s death from COVID-19 in November 2021. She remarried in 2023, and last month, her husband, Doug Weiss, announced that Lamb had suffered a back injury and would be off the air for a while. A statement from Daystar mourning her death said she had been “dealing with serious health matters” in private. Top Stories | (RNS) — Lamb and her first husband, Marcus, founded Daystar in the 1990s and grew it into one of the largest Christian networks in the country. The ministry experienced a series of controversies after Marcus Lamb’s death from COVID-19. |
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