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This Sept. 28, 2017 photo shows the facade of what once was the Stylofino picture frame factory owned by members of Rhema Community Evangelical Ministry, affiliated with the Word of Faith Fellowship church, in Franco da Rocha, Brazil, in the greater Sao Paulo area. The business and its labor practices are under investigation by Brazilian authorities, just one of several inquiries launched into a pair of Brazilian churches connected to Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical sect based in Spindale, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil branches of US-based church target of numerous probes

By PETER PRENGAMAN - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Thursday, March 30, 2017 photo, Juliana Oliveira, a former member of the Word of Faith Fellowship, cries during an interview in Betim, Brazil. &quot;When you are in a cult, you don't know you are in a cult because little by little it all becomes ‘normal,’&quot; said Oliveira. &quot;It's like a frog in a pot of water. By the time it's boiling, he can't jump out.&quot; (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

AP: Brazilians detail abuses by US church, shattered lives

By PETER PRENGAMAN and MITCH WEISS and HOLBROOK MOHR - Associated Press