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An influential evangelist preacher from the Philippines accused of sex trafficking and sexual abuse has been arrested, the interior minister said on Sunday. Apollo Quiboloy, self-proclaimed 'owner of the universe' and 'appointed son of god', is wanted on charges of child and sexual abuse and related allegations of human trafficking. He has denied wrongdoing. 'Apollo Quiboloy has been caught,' Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. said on his Facebook page, without specifying how or where he had been. The pastor is also on the FBI's 'most wanted' list in the United States on separate charges of sex trafficking and bulk cash...

The leader of a Philippines-based church was charged with having sex with women and underage girls who faced threats of abuse and “eternal damnation” unless they catered to the self-proclaimed “son of God,” federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Apollo Carreon Quiboloy and two of his top administrators are among nine people named in a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury last week and unsealed Thursday. The indictment includes three Los Angeles-based administrators of Quiboloy’s church who were charged last year. The new indictment also names a church administrator in Hawaii. Quiboloy, 71, is head of the Kingdom of Jesus...