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From the outside it is a polygon. If you don't wonder, the Evangelical Church of Christ Is Coming, led by Yadira Maestre, is invisible. It looks like a factory. It does not matter: on March 25 and two months before the elections, the Popular Party baptized with an act the attempt to win the Latin vote: "Europe is Hispania". The event was led by the greats: Núñez Feijoo, Isabel Díaz Ayuso and Martínez Almeida appeared in each photograph.

"Lord bless our mayor, bless our president and bless Mr. Feijoo," Yadira said. The event included a prayer to bless the tabernacle, which was given by the foundress, Yadira Maestre. Everyone was smiling. It was not the first time that Maestre promotes the popular, he has also delivered an award to the president of the Community of Madrid and the mayor and gave his temple for a collection of signatures "against the pardons of Sánchez". This pastor is of Colombian origin and founded this Church in 1989 with her husband, the Cuban Florentino Barceló, and although this Tuesday there were only about 50 people it is said that every Sunday it congregates 500 parishioners. Among them is his daughter in common with Barceló: Keliah Barceló Maestre. None of the three showed up Tuesday. It is a weekly appointment: "It is the most open day, when more new people come."

The person in charge of the Communication of FEDERE, defends that being against heterosexual marriage 'is not exactly homophobia'".

However, a Tuesday for "a stranger" in the place where they pray, Christ Comes does not sound like that. The first thing Yadira Maestre's followers do if you are "new" is ask for identification, even if she is not there. Where you are from, how you have known that place, what your nationality is and what your phone number is. And once inside Usera's ship, it does not matter that they already have it pointed, soon they request it again: "Where has this girl come from?"

LOC infiltrated one of his acts and the beginning was somewhat threatening. After several attempts to learn about the connection, a woman – not Jadira – dressed in full camouflage, was direct: "If you are a journalist, you know that you cannot record."

Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and José Luis Martínez-AlmeidaEFE

The tabernacle of his Tuesdays is based on singing songs and from the outside it could be a concert but for his community he awaits a lot of meaning. Also its relationship with Madrid politics. In this sense, the Federation of Evangelical Religious Entities of Spain (FEREDE) was clear since Monday, when it issued a statement: "The evangelical Christians in Spain who are part of FEREDE, subscribe to the separation of Church and State, democratic principle enunciated by the radical Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century that evangelicals have always defended with great risk and damage to our churches, and being prey for this cause of persecutions by absolutist regimes in the last five centuries."

Inside the rooms of the ship of Christ Viene they talk about hell, "Christ is alive and will be able to with all the news that they want to knock us down," said the same woman who demanded not to record dressed in camouflage. There would be about 50 people but in the first 15 minutes only ten. The prayer lasts two hours, and most of the time they sing. "But invited by whom?", Cristo Viene at the beginning features a band on stage live surrounded by people wearing T-shirts that read: "revival network" (they believe they revive what is dead) and most carried a flag of their country. They represent Latam but also Ayuso's Madrid. Among all, there was a flag of the Community of Madrid, what was Ayuso doing on Tuesday with Yadira? Try to capture the Latino vote.

The first songs they utter in their prayers are moved, until ecstasy arrives with Jeshua. Singing it, many of those present trembled and did not open their eyes, some even cried. The worship ended in the reading of several passages of the Gospel, and this Tuesday, they focused on the parts where heaven ended up winning over hell. This week videos of Yadira Maestre have circulated where she claims to cure physical ailments or sexual inclinations.

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Last Tuesday, in his temple they did not say anything about sexual orientations: they only talked about hell. FEREDE defends that in its Churches "there is diversity of liturgical forms and cultures". No wonder: in Madrid alone there are more than 700 places of worship, according to their own reports. From the nucleus they defend that "the Church of Yadira does not have to be representative of what we live".

The Protestant Church, as a whole, defends heterosexual marriage, and therefore rejects homosexual marriage. "We have had forums on this and the majority consensus is the recognition of heterosexual marriage, we have nothing against other orientations but..." The words in Yadira Maestre's videos within the Protestant Church are not strange. The pastor of FEDERE, defends that "it is not exactly homophobia but to follow the word of the Gospel, which does not allow relationships between two men or two women." The two hours of prayer Tuesday in the tabernacle were dedicated entirely to Jeshua about whom they repeated "who is alive and among us."

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