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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 Superior ...

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — Their spiritual leader is behind bars in California after pleading guilty to sexually abusing minors. Yet legions of followers of Naasón Joaquín García in his home base in ...

Just days before his long-awaited trial was set to start, La Luz del Mundo leader Naason Joaquin Garcia pleaded guilty Friday to sexually abusing girls from his congregation, a stunning reversal for a ...

The leader of La Luz del Mundo church will remain in jail until at least Monday unless someone can pay the portion of his $50-million bail needed to release him. Naasón Joaquín Garcia, 50, and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Mexico-based La Luz del Mundo church ...

Driving west on Interstate 10 through Phoenix, a behemoth 84-foot concrete tower and a silver metallic dome rise near the overpass at Grand Avenue. Under construction for more than a decade, the ...

If you were to do a time-lapse video of the construction of the church on Ontario’s Mountain Avenue, it would still look as if it were happening in slow motion. That’s because La Luz del Mundo bought ...