Cash Luna

Carlos Enrique Luna Arango popularly known as Cash Luna (born 4 March 1962) is pastor in Guatemala and along with his wife is the founder of the Casa de Dios, one of the largest megachurches in Latin America. Luna is known throughout Latin America for his Televangelism and Faith Healing.

Luna and his wife founded Casa de Dios in Guatemala City in 1994. The church is today one of the largest growing congregations in Guatemala with a claimed 25,000 in weekly attendance. In April 2013 a massive new church was unveiled with an area of 270,000 square meters and the capacity to fit 12,000 worshipers at a time.

Shortly after the unveiling of the new Casa de Dios complex in 2013 Luna was presented with an award by the then President of Guatemala Otto Pérez Molina. Pérez stated that Luna had provided an example of what Guatemalans could achieve through faith and working together. He also praised Luna's efforts to end violence and drug abuse.

Luna has been criticized for his faith healing activities and amassed wealth. In June 2014 Luna staged a faith healing event in Villahermosa, Mexico where he claimed that the blind would see, the deaf would hear, and the disabled would walk out of their wheelchairs. Despite initially promoting the event as being free, attendees were charged 500 pesos for the event. Luna ended up making a profit of 15 million pesos from the event (roughly around 1 million US dollars at the time).

Luna is well known for his televangelism and presence on social media. His Facebook account has a million and a half fans as of 2015. In addition to his naturally large congregation in his native Guatemala, Luna has a significant number of followers and fans in Mexico as well among Hispanic Americans in the United States. Luna is well known for his creative methods of preaching, one time riding into church on a motorcycle.

During the 2015 election Luna was a strong supporter of candidate Jimmy Morales, who later won the election. Morales, who is a devout evangelical Christian, had strong support from Luna and other evangelical pastors. During presidency Morales has visited the Casa de Dios on multiple occasions.

In August 2017 rumors started spreading on social media that Luna had died after a prolonged absence. Luna later rebuked these rumors on his Instagram page, stating that he was "alive and kicking".

In December 2018 the Guatemalan authorities ordered an investigation into Luna over alleged links with Marllory Chacon, a convicted drug trafficker. According to accusations listed in a report by Univision, Chacon, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2015 in the United States, was given money by Luna who allegedly knew about her drug-related activity. On 5 June 2019 Luna's attorny Charles Harder announced that his client was filling a lawsuit suing Univision for what they alleged were false allegations and facts made in the stories the publication ran.