On this Sunday's 30 minuts, Power and Glory, kept you glued to the sofa. The investigation into the rise of evangelical churches in Catalonia might initially seem like a matter rather tangential to the country's reality, especially in less religious environments. Perhaps for this reason, they began with three testimonies from Catalans who have become involved. A carpenter from Bellcaire d'Empordà and a couple from Girona served as bait to introduce us to a story that, little by little, took on an unexpected dimension. The 30 minuts sought the viewer's perplexity at scenes of religious fervor and spiritual ecstasy, amidst chants and the pastor's shouts. The difference between the Catalan temperament, more reserved, and the Latin American one, more passionate, was highlighted, with an imprecise use of 'us' and 'them'. us and them.The subsequent examples of neo-Pentecostal Churches in Catalonia made one impatiently await some turn that went beyond that incomprehensible showcase. The overacted pushes to the heads of the faithful to make them fall backward as if fainting, the promises to "dry up cancer," and the cries to heaven to ask for "a new womb" for a woman caused consternation. It took courage to record it without hidden cameras and with the testimony of the very pastors who lead these spectacles. Fortunately, the turning point arrived: the manipulation of people and economic interests. However, the indulgence and fear with which experts in religious matters evaluated that panorama were disappointing. After these images of healing rituals with shouts, roars, and fits of hysteria, Guillem Correa, general secretary of the Evangelical Council of Catalonia – and director of the program Néixer de nou on 3Cat –, remained mute and immobile. He did not want to comment on what we had just seen. We heard the journalist ask him if that was manipulation, but he did not even blink and remained silent. Silence implies consent. It is obvious that talking about religion and its tentacles, not always honest, still generates fear, especially when the line between a Church and a sect becomes more blurred.

This week, images of former Brazilian footballer Dani Alves, implicated in an alleged rape case, have gone viral. He stood as a fervent preacher in an evangelical church in GironaThis is the Elim Church, a Pentecostal church, quite popular with the local Protestant community, located in an industrial building on the western outskirts of the city. Every week—several days—religious services are held, drawing over a hundred parishioners from some twenty different countries, primarily from Latin America, who follow the service with genuine devotion.

A modern building in the middle of the residential neighborhood of Parque Chacabuco, in Buenos Aires, has its doors open on a Sunday afternoon. A variety of people gather—young people, older people, children, and teenagers—greeting each other, chatting, and hugging. It's just a few minutes before seven in the evening, when the meeting begins. On the black facade, there's an illuminated drawing of a bell and some letters that call it "Cathedral of Faith." It's an evangelical church.

Two young people have reported a leader and monitor of an evangelical religious community in Terrassa, the Samaria Church, for allegedly having sexually assaulted them when they were minors. The complaint that has been made The Newspaper The ARA has had access to the information, which is also directed against another member of the same religious community, who allegedly sexually assaulted them when he was still a minor.