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Mexican Church Leader Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison

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By KELIN DILLON On Wednesday, June 8, the leader of Mexico’s controversial La Luz del Mundo Church, Naasón Joaquín García, son of church founder Eusebio Joaquín González, was sentenced to 16 years and 8 months in a U.S. prison by a judge in Los Angeles on charges surrounding his sexual abuse of three minor girls in his congregation. Originally arrested

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The Dark Side of Mexico’s Light of the World Church

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By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — Since pre-Hispanic times, Mexico has been characterized by the religiosity of its inhabitants whose complex cultural legacy that prevails to this day. In the ancient Toltec, Maya and Aztec cultures, virtually every aspect of daily life resolved around religious ceremonies and rituals.  After the arrival and establishment of Catholicism in the 16th century with the

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