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The Iglesia del Dios Vivo, Columna y Apoyo de la Verdad, La Luz del Mundo (Spanish: [iˈɣlesja ðel ˈdjos ˈβiβo koˈlumnaj aˈpoʝo ðe la βeɾˈðað la ˈlus ðel ˈmundo]; English: "Church of the Living God, Pillar and Ground of the Truth, The Light of the World")—or simply La Luz del Mundo (LLDM)—is a nontrinitarian Christian denomination in the Restorationist tradition, with ...
Naasón Merarí Joaquín García (born on 7 May 1969) is a convicted sex offender, and the third leader of the La Luz del Mundo church, succeeding his father, Samuel Joaquín Flores. In 2020, he pled guilty in California to three charges related to sexually abusing children and was imprisoned for 16 years 8 months.
By 1970, La Luz Del Mundo included Costa Rica, Colombia, and Guatemala in its membership. By 1972, there were approximately 72,000 members of the church, which increased to 1.5 million by 1986 and to 4 million by 1993. [citation needed] In Mexico alone, La Luz Del Mundo had 188,326 followers according to the INEGI Census in 2010. [6]
Naason Joaquin Garcia, right, former leader of the fundamentalist Guadalajara, Mexico-based church La Luz del Mundo, listens to victim statements during his sentencing in Los Angeles County ...
After the denominations in the Oneness Pentecostal movement, the largest nontrinitarian Christian denominations are the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, La Luz del Mundo, and Iglesia ni Cristo.
Ramón Gustavo Castillo Gaete (20 December 1977 – 1 May 2013) was a Chilean murderer and leader of a doomsday-oriented religious sect stationed in Colliguay, a rural area in the Valparaíso Region, [1] where he claimed to be the second coming of Jesus and was known as "Antares de la Luz" (from Spanish, "Antares of the Light").
The public accusations for his belonging to said religious organization became notorious again when on 1 May 2023 the National Electoral Institute granted registration as a national political association to Humanismo Mexicano, an organization chaired by Reyes Carmona, and in which the deputies and members of La Luz del Mundo Hamlet García ...
Jorge Erdely Graham is a Mexican Protestant theologian, religious studies scholar, [1] and author. [2] [3] [4] [5]He is associate editor [6] of Revista Académica para el Estudio de las Religiones, a member of the American Academy of Religion and former director of Centro de Investigaciones del Instituto Cristiano de Mexico.