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The FBI has raided a Los Angeles church as part of a human trafficking and immigration fraud investigation.
The local leader of the Philippines-based Kingdom of Jesus Christ church has been charged with immigration fraud and a staff member has been charged for their role in taking passports away from victims.
The Associated Press reports that the church was running a “decades-long scheme to trick followers into becoming fundraisers and arrange sham marriages to keep them in the U.S.”
“Fundraisers who managed to escape from the church told the FBI that they had been sent across the U.S. to solicit donations for the church’s charity, The Children’s Joy Foundation, and were beaten if they didn’t make daily quotas, according to affidavit filed in support of the charges. Some described having to live in cars at truck stops,” the AP report explained.
An FBI Agent involved with the investigation told AP that they had documented 82 sham marriages over a 20-year period and tracked $20 million raised between 2014 and the middle of last year that was sent back to the church in the Philippines.
“Most of these funds appear to derive from street-level solicitation,” according to the affidavit by FBI Special Agent Anne Wetzel. “Little to no money solicited appears to benefit impoverished or in-need children.”
The FBI raided the church’s Van Nuys compound and were also searching two other Los Angeles locations and two in Hawaii that were connected to the group.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/los-angeles-church-raided-in-human-trafficking-investigation-church-leader-charged-with-immigration-fraud/
Apollo Quiboloy
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This name uses Philippine naming customs. The middle name or maternal family name is Carreon and the surname or paternal family name is Quiboloy.
Apollo Carreon Quiboloy is the founder and leader of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name [1][2][3] He has made claims that he is the "Appointed Son of God".[4]
Early years
Quiboloy was born on April 25, 1950 in the foothills of Mt. Apo in Davao City, and is the youngest of nine children of Kapampangans JosĂ© Quiboloy y Turla and MarĂa CarreĂłn y Quinto (born December 28, 1913).[5][6] Both his parents were natives of Lubao, Pampanga, and had migrated to Davao following the end of the Second World War to find better jobs.
Church
Quiboloy is the founding leader and Executive Pastor of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name founded on September 1, 1985.[citation needed] He began preaching in the slums of Villamor, Agdao, Davao City with only 15 members.[citation needed] He has received critical responses to his claims of being the "Appointed Son of God".[7][8]
The sect's main Cathedral is located along Buhangin National Highway in Davao City.
His followers refer to their community as a "Kingdom Nation." They claim about 2 million "Kingdom citizens" abroad and 4 million in the Philippines.[6] On weekdays, members hold bible sessions and prayer services. On Sundays, a "Global Worship" is held at the Cathedral in Buhangin District. In 2000, Quiboloy founded JosĂ© MarĂa College, named after his parents.[6]
Media holdings
His ministry has a global television channel, the Sonshine Media Network International (President and CEO), and 17 radio stations in the Philippines. It also has two newspapers, Pinas and Sikat.;[6] the Pinas is circulated weekly for followers in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Involvement in sports
In June 2014, Quiboloy founded Sonshine Sports Management, the newly-created sports management group based in Davao City. SSMI organized different boxing and basketball events within the city.[9]
Political involvement
Quiboloy anointed Gilbert Teodoro as the next president in the 2010 Philippine presidential election. "Tonight let it be known to all Filipinos that the Almighty Father has appointed the president of this nation. He is no other than Gilbert 'Gibo' Teodoro," Quiboloy told thousands of cheering followers.[10] Teodoro finished fourth in the election with 4,095,839 votes (or 11.33%) to which Qui-boloy responded, "I myself am a little bit disturbed with the reports of fraud and cheating in the last elections. Even I am asking where did the votes of the Kingdom go? What happened to our votes when we were supposed to be solid for Gibo?"[11]
In the 2016 national elections, Quiboloy and the members of Kingdom of Jesus Christ endorsed the presidential candidacy of the pastor's close friend, Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte and his runningmate Alan Peter Cayetano.[12][13]
Controversies
Quiboloy has been sued by a former member for allegedly brainwashing and holding her young daughter against her will.[14][15]
Dispute with the New People's Army
The communist New People's Army (NPA) has accused Quiboloy of being behind the massacre of K'lata-Bagobos leader Datu Domingo Diarog and his family on April 29, 2008 for allegedly refusing to sell two hectares of their property for ₱50,000 to Quiboloy and his sect. The property is within the 700-hectare ancestral domain claimed by the Bagobo people in Tugbok and is adjacent to Quiboloy's walled "prayer mountain" in Tamayong. Diarog's widow said followers of Quiboloy had threatened to evict them from the land and her relatives were even offered a ₱20,000 bounty for Diarog's head.[16] Quiboloy, however, said the charges were "totally false and baseless, if not ridiculous."[17]
While Quiboloy has branded the rebels "mga anák ni Satanás" (Satan's offspring), the NPA has declared him a "warlord in the service of the Gloria Arroyo administration's policies against the peasants and indigenous peoples."[18] Quiboloy also said on his television program that he "could arm 20,000 of his followers with M16 rifles to fight the communist New People’s Army (NPA)".[19] Police investigator Ireneo Dalogdog, head of the Tugbok police, said he had been receiving reports that Diarog was being harassed by armed men associated with Quiboloy, and that Diarog’s farmhouse had earlier been razed thrice.[16]
Personal life
Quiboloy has never been married and has no children.
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…aaand he's connected to…another [Slick Willie] operative. Swamp is wide and deep.
Gloria_Macapagal_Arroyo
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She was born as Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal to politician Diosdado Macapagal and his wife, Evangelina Macaraeg Macapagal. She is the sister of Dr. Diosdado "Boboy" Macapagal, Jr. and Cielo Macapagal Salgado. She spent the first years of her life in Lubao, Pampanga, with her two older siblings from her father's first marriage.[1] At the age of four, she chose to live with her maternal grandmother in Iligan City.[6] She stayed there for three years, then split her time between Mindanao and Manila until the age of 11.[6] She is fluent in English, Tagalog, Spanish and several other Philippine languages, most importantly, Kapampangan, Ilokano, and Cebuano.
In 1961, when Arroyo was just 14 years old, her father was elected as president. She moved with her family into Malacañang Palace in Manila. A municipality was named in her honor, Gloria, Oriental Mindoro. She attended Assumption Convent for her elementary and high school education, graduating valedictorian in 1964. Arroyo then studied for two years at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. where she was a classmate of future United States President Bill Clinton and achieved consistent Dean's list status.[7] She then earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Assumption College, graduating magna cum laude in 1968.
In 1968, Arroyo married lawyer and businessman Jose Miguel Arroyo of Binalbagan, Negros Occidental, whom she had met while still a teenager.[1] They had three children, Juan Miguel (born 1969), Evangelina Lourdes (born 1971) and Diosdado Ignacio Jose Maria (born in 1974). She pursued a master's degree in Economics at the Ateneo de Manila University (1978) and a Doctorate Degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines Diliman (1985).[8] From 1977 to 1987, she held teaching positions in several schools, notably the University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila University. She became chairperson of the Economics Department at Assumption College.
In 1987, she was invited by President Corazon Aquino to join the government as Assistant Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry. She was promoted to Undersecretary two years later. In her concurrent position as Executive Director of the Garments and Textile Export Board, Arroyo oversaw the rapid growth of the garment industry in the late 1980s.
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