Pastors, bishops and apostles

Bishop Sônia Hernandes

Convicted

bishop, co-founder of the Renascer em Cristo Church; convicted in 2007 by the US federal court in Miami, after a guilty plea, of evading currency declaration requirements and conspiracy

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Support for Jair Bolsonaro

At the 2019 March for Jesus, to which the Hernandes couple invited Bolsonaro, then president, she said in a speech: "For the first time in the presidency of Brazil the name of God was heard above all". In 2026, she opened the sound truck of Flávio Bolsonaro's supporters at the 7 September rally on Avenida Paulista.

Court cases and investigations

Criminal sphere

US federal criminal case against Estevam and Sonia Hernandes (US$ 56,000 undeclared, Miami, 2007) — Convicted (final, unappealable)

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