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Neo-Pentecostal world, and theses authors have been an influence in some way on the concept of their theology and the way they do mission.\u000A3. Ties with the mass media\u000AThe communication media has been the natural way to export ideas, forms, strategies, beliefs and preaching styles among the NPCs. Television Channels 27 and 23 maintain and receive assessment and productions from The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), the USA Hispanic National Religious Broadcasters, the Iberia-American Confederation of Christian Communications (COICOM), and with ENLACE which broadcast in channel 23 from San Jos\u00E9, Costa Rica. These stations transmit all the Neo-Pentecostal beliefs. Denis Smith\u2019s analysis about the mass media in Central America shows that the Evangelical churches have been influenced by foreign broadcasting (In Rose & Schultze 1992: 289- 305).\u000AThe Aleluya News magazine plays a very important role at the national level. This magazine created and produced by Guatemalan businessmen shares news, events and doctrines of the Neo-Pentecostal world. It emerged as a form of support and to provide orientation for some of the pastors of the mega-churches in Guatemala City. Up to a certain point it becomes the indirect voice of NPCs.\u000AThe worship concerts among other things have imported Hebrew music and dance which has penetrated the churches with great strength. In some churches there even exists a sort of Hebrew iconography in the buildings of these churches. Replicas of the star of David, candelabras, the table of proposition and the ark of the covenant can be observed in the altars or outside the NPCs.64 In his visit to the \u2018Fuente de Agua Viva\u2019 church of the city of Carolina in Puerto Rico in 1999 the researcher observed that in one of the entrances replicas of Jewish symbols were placed and at the other door they exhibit replicas of dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park. At the side of the church building (which seats five\u000A64 To celebrate 50 years of the foundation of the Jewish State, a park was built in their honour in the installations of the IFD church.\u000A 111\u000A