Quiboloy camp: Raps a vicious attempt to bring down religious leader

Published November 19, 2021 07:32 PM By RICHA ALYSSA NORIEGA,GMA News

The camp of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, leader of the church called Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Name Above Every Name, has denied the sex-trafficking charges filed against him in the United States.

In a statement, the KJC legal counsel said it was "a vicious attempt" to bring down their leader.

“Once again, another vicious attempt to bring down Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy and some of the Kingdom leaders has been organized just recently in the United States, but The KJC, The Name Above Every Name and all its followers remain steadfast and committed to faithfully respond to its mission, its ministry and its divine calling despite all the detraction efforts made against them,” a the KJC Legal Counsel said in a statement on Friday.

US prosecutors on Thursday announced sex-trafficking charges alleging that girls and young women were coerced to have sex with Quiboloy.

A 74-page indictment charges Quiboloy

and other church officials, including two US-based church administrators, with running a sex-trafficking operation that threatened victims as young as 12 with "eternal damnation" and physical abuse.

The church’s legal counsel underscored that the growing opposition “are trying their best to destroy all the Kingdom leaders.”

“The people who accused him today in California, are the same dissidents who miserably failed in their attempt to bring Pastor Quiboloy into the case in Hawaii,” the statement read.

The legal counsel also expressed that they will not detract from the church and its mission.

“We are confident and ready to face whatever is hurled against Pastor Quiboloy and the Kingdom leaders. We trust the process of justice and we certainly expect the truth to prevail and the Kingdom ministry will continue to prosper,” it added.

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles said the new indictment expanded on allegations made last year against three church administrators based in the city. It charges nine defendants with participating in a scheme in which church members were brought to the United States using fraudulently obtained visas and forced to solicit donations to a bogus children's charity.

Prosecutors said the donations were used to pay for "lavish lifestyles" of the church leaders. -NB, GMA News

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