They were arrested in flagrante delicto this Wednesday, 12th, in Morro dos Veados, urban district of Benfica, the two alleged pastors, linked to the army of faith sect, who preached illegally in camps, wearing military uniform.
The Criminal Investigation Service presented the press today with the two alleged pastors, one aged 40 and the other aged 47, both arrested in flagrante delicto for illegally wearing military uniforms in religious worship.
The detention of the two alleged pastors follows a video that circulated on social networks, where the two individuals, now detained, were in a supposedly religious camp, on Morro dos Veados, dressed in military clothes, and being praised by a group of young people.
Speaking to the press, this Thursday, the Chief Superintendent of Criminal Investigation, and National Director of the SIC Institutional Communication and Press Office, Manuel Halaiwa, said that it would have been through the SIC’s operating bodies, within the scope of monitoring of social media content, which detected the video that circulated on the TikToker network, where the two alleged pastors appear, in an open-air area, in the Benfica area, performing religious worship, fully dressed in uniforms similar to those of the Angolan Armed Forces and also with smugglers that can be confused with those of general officers in the army.
Halaiwa added that in view of this fact, the SIC triggered operative actions that resulted in the arrest of the two national citizens, who, following being urged, claimed to be part of the Pentecostal Assembly of God Church, but who now decided to create their own religious congregation, which is not legalized for any exercise of this nature.
The spokesperson for SIC Geral underlines that the accused recruited as believers of this church a group composed of 82 citizens, mostly young people, aged between 16 and 32, coming from various parts of the country, who were supposedly in the world of delinquency.
