Guadalajara long has been a bastion of Catholicism. For nearly 100 years, it also has been the cradle of the largest evangelical church in Mexico. A dispatch:
Since his arrest, parishioners have reported being verbally assaulted and people have vandalized churches. On one, the word “rapist” was scrawled in yellow.
Jahdai Ramirez, 11, center, buys a new dress with her mother Gladys Hidalgo, members of La Luz del Mundo Church, at Princesitas, dresses for girls, along Calzada Dr. Samuel Joaquín Flores, in the Hermosa Provincia neighborhood . Along Jardines Botanicos, behind a broken pane of glass on a door, a weathered sign declares in red lettering:The apostle’s followers will tell you that they didn’t choose Guadalajara, that it was chosen for them.
In the living room of a home on Jerusalem street hang photos of Garcia and his father and predecessor, Samuel Joaquin Flores, who died in 2014. In a painting in the bedroom, Gonzalez is pictured beside his son and grandson.,” said 46-year-old Eunice Victorin Robles, her eyes shining as she held her hand to her heart. “Our three great loves.”The 10 siblings, five men and five women, were born into the faith. Four of the men are ministers, three in the U.S. and one in Mexico.
“They are like apostles who were sent by Jesus Christ himself,” said Patricia Fortuny, a Mexican anthropologist who has studied La Luz del Mundo for decades. “They are not simple men, they are not simple ministers. In that sense, they have created a special cult to their personality.” Top, Maria Guadalupe Hernandez, left, and husband Juan Hernandez Hernandez say the rosary while Catholic images are shown on their TV in Guadalajara. Left, the Cathedral of the Assumption of Our Lady in Guadalajara. Right, people take a dance lesson in the Plaza de Armas with the cathedral, right, in the background.
A wail rises up like a wave inside La Luz del Mundo’s temple, rolling along the pews where the men and women sit separate. As the women kneel, they pull their head coverings shut — like drapes over a window — to hide their tears behind lace.“Take care of him, God,” one woman said of Garcia.
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