According to the spokesman for the Luanda provincial police command, Nestor Goubel, the assault took place in the early hours of Saturday to Sunday, around 2 am, with the assailants taking several materials.
"They took a series of materials, speakers, microphones, amplifiers, computers, among others," said Nestor Goubel, stressing that the police learned of the fact through the church itself, which filed a complaint at a nearby police station.
Nestor Goubel stressed that "an investigative file has been opened", and the situation is still being investigated to clarify the case.
On the information that the police were responsible for ensuring the safety of the space, due to the conflict in the church since last year, Nestor Goubel rejected it, saying he did not have this information.
The IURD has been facing an internal conflict for a year, divided into two wings, that of Angolan bishops and pastors and that of Brazilians, which led the judicial authorities to suspend all their activity and to close the temples in the country, as part of the process -crime for alleged crimes of criminal association, tax fraud and illegal export of capital.
This month, a letter from the National Institute of Religious Affairs (INAR) confirmed the legitimacy of the representative of the IURD Reform Commission, made up of Angolans, now representing the church as bishop Valente Bezerra Luís.
The Brazilian side expressed displeasure with the decision of INAR, taken "in absentia", stating that judicially it has taken measures "against another attack" that they have suffered.
"In addition to the lack of legitimacy of INAR to take the aforementioned decision, it must be made public that the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and its representatives was never heard, notified, communicated or heard," said a note issued at the time, stressing that "inexplicably, the IURD was kept on the sidelines and removed" from the process.
In the exchange of accusations, the Angolan bishops say that the decision to break with the Brazilian representation in Angola, led by Bishop Honorilton Gonçalves, faithful to the founder Edir Macedo, was due to practices contrary to religion, such as the requirement to practice vasectomy, racism , social discrimination, abuse of authority, in addition to foreign exchange evasion, all denied by the Brazilian side, which complains about xenophobic attacks and aggressions against pastors.
