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Congregants walk down the main steps of La Luz del Mundo Church in east Los Angeles on 5 June 2019. Photograph: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

Since its inception nearly 100 years ago, La Luz del Mundo Church has been a family affair even as it spread from Mexico to the US and around the world.

Eusebio “Aaron” Joaquín Gonzalez, who founded the Guadalajara-based Christian church, was succeeded by his son, Samuel Joaquín Flores, upon his death in 1964.

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