Brazilian neo-Pentecostal minister, leader and founder of the Apostolic Church Renascer em Cristo (Reborn in Christ), in which he is the Apostle. He also founded the Rede Gospel television network and several other media companies. He was also responsible for bringing the Marcha para Jesus (March for Jesus) event to Brazil.
Hernandes is often Spanish descent. He is married to Sônia Hernandes, co-founder and Bishop of the same church, and the mother of their three children, Fernanda, Gabriel and Filipe (1978-2016). Gabriel is an adopted son.
Estevam Hernandes and Sônia Hernandes founded their Church in São Paulo in 1986. As of 2007, the church had over 2 million members and more than 1,500 temples in Brazil and around the world. By 2011, the number of church temples had dropped to 315, the vast majority in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, in addition to a tiny presence in the United States and Angola.
Despite not being among the largest Protestant denominations in Brazil, the church attracts a large evangelical audience of large denominations at major events such as the March for Jesus, which has been held annually in São Paulo since 1993. The Church Renascer em Cristo also has several media outlets, such as the TV network Rede Gospel, the radio network Gospel FM, the publisher Editora Gospel, the clothing brand Gospel Wear and the record label Gospel Records.
The founding couple, Estevam Hernandes and Sônia Hernandes, and their organization are under investigation on the basis of money laundering, perjury, libel, exploitation of non-profit status, tax evasion and a number of other criminal actions. In January 2007, both founders were arrested at Miami International Airport by the FBI for failure to declare over $56,000 in cash brought into the United States. The couple were sentenced to five months in prison. Sonia and Estevam Hernandes lived temporary under court order in their own house in Florida. After leaving the American prison, the couple returned to Brazil.
On 18 January 2009, the main temple of Reborn in Christ Church, in Cambuci, São Paulo, collapsed. The roof fell down, killing 9 people and injuring over 115.

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