Born on 21 December 1936 in Elias Fausto, São Paulo, Brazil, his parents were Sérgio Abib, of Syrian and Lebanese descent, and Josefa Pacheco.

At the age of twelve he studied at the Liceu Coração de Jesus and worked in the graphic arts workshop – binding industry.

At the age of thirteen, he was transferred to the San Manuel Gymnasium in Lavrinhas (São Paulo), with the aim of becoming part of the Salesian seminary, where he later left for Pindamonhangaba (SP) to study at the Instituto do Eucharistic Heart, and then to Lorena (SP), to study Philosophy, at the Salesian Institute of Philosophy and Pedagogy.

In 1971, Jonas Abib had an experience of prayer in a retreat promoted by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, marking his life and ministry, becoming, from the beginning, one of the main leaders of this ecclesial movement.

In 2004, along with the Canção Nova Community, inaugurated the Center of Evangelization Don João Hipólito de Moraes, a place for more than 80 thousand people.

Jonas Abib was president of the John Paul II Foundation and member of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Council of Brazil, as well as other functions.

The rapporteur of the case, Minister Luiz Edson Fachin, first explained that "the discriminatory criminal discourse only materializes after three indispensable steps have been taken: one of cognitive character, attesting to the inequality between groups and or individuals, another of value bias, in which is based on a supposed relationship of superiority between them and, finally, a third, in which the agent, from the previous stages, assumes legitimate the domination, exploitation, enslavement, elimination, suppression or reduction of fundamental rights of the different that comprises inferior".

In the case in point, Minister Fachin understood that Abib "by means of publication in a book, incites the Catholic community to undertake a religious rescue aimed at the salvation of adherents of spiritualism, in an attitude which, despite the fact that, does without any sign of violence, domination, exploitation, enslavement, elimination, suppression or reduction of fundamental rights. "