Overview
- Mexico's Interior Ministry said it has suspended García's authorization to serve as a minister, while confirming La Luz del Mundo keeps its legal registration.
- Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez said the ministry acts when prosecutors notify it of criminal findings and otherwise only checks registration requirements.
- Mexico's federal prosecutors have moved to seek a new hearing that could reopen the case against García in Mexico, according to officials' public remarks.
- García is serving a 16-year, eight-month sentence from a 2022 California conviction for abusing minors.
- A separate U.S. federal case filed in 2025 alleges a scheme that exploited followers through sex trafficking, child pornography, forced labor, and illicit finance, with prosecutors saying his mother and nephew are in custody and three co-defendants remain at large.