One of Brazil’s top leaders within the Pentecostal movement was arrested in Miami and charged with smuggling cash into the United States. For full story click onto:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/world/americas/19brazil.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
This type of economic deception with a religious cover goes back at least to the time of Ananias and Sapphira. Mark Twain included an episode of this type in Huckleberry Finn, there was also the 20th century novel Elmer Gantry. At each and every bend we are beset with these scandals. It was Jesus who said, “Let the weeds grow up with the wheat,” but we all know what was the end of that. May are hearts be endeared to the Lord and Him alone, less we too fall.