The Igreja Renascer em Cristo or Reborn in Christ Church (also Rebirth in Christ Church), which was founded in São Paulo in 1986 by Estevam Hernandes and Sônia Hernandes. The church has over 2,000,000 members and more than 1,500 churches in Brazil and around the world.
The founding couple, Estevam Hernandes and Sônia Hernandes, and their organization are under investigation on the basis of money laundering, perjury, libel, exploitation of non-profit status, tax evasion and a number of other criminal actions. In January 2007, both founders were arrested in Miami by the FBI for failure to declare over $56,000 in cash brought into the USA. The couple was sentenced to five months in prison.
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