Ivone Teixeira told Lusa that, in total, 112 members of the UCKG are leaving for Brazil, including 55 couples (missionaries and their wives) and two more single religious, and the process is in charge of the Migration and Foreigners Service.
The departure will take place "gradually, in groups of 10, with two trips per week planned," said the official.
The Brazilians of the UCKG were notified in April to voluntarily leave the country for having ceased ecclesiastic activity in Angola and, as a consequence, to see their temporary residence visas cancelled, following a letter from the new Angolan management of the UCKG.
The internal conflict in the UCKG had its beginning in November 2019, when a group of Angolan dissidents decided to distance themselves from the Brazilian direction, with several accusations, namely of currency evasion, racism, compulsory practice of vasectomy, among others, all rejected by the missionaries of the church created by the Brazilian Edir Macedo, who also accuse the Angolans of xenophobia and aggression.
In the Angolan courts, after the beginning of the differences between the parties, aggravated by the forcible takeover of temples all over the country, several lawsuits related to the UCKG Angola are underway.
A Reform Commission of Angolan pastors was legitimized by the State, and the new direction of the UCKG, headed by Bishop Valente Bezerra, was elected in a general assembly on February 13.
