Filipino megachurch founder forced girls and young women into sex, telling them it was 'God's will
Source: Washington Post
Between 2002 and 2018, Apollo Carreon Quiboloy the founder of a Philippines-based megachurch and his accomplices recruited women and girls as young as 12 to work as Quiboloys personal assistants, or pastorals, prosecutors said.
Under Quiboloy and his accomplices orders, women and girls prepared his meals, cleaned his multiple residences in the Philippines and the United States, gave him massages and accompanied him on trips around the world, court records state.
For over 15 years, the victims were forced to devote their lives and bodies to the founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Name Above Every Name by writing commitment letters to Quiboloy, prosecutors state.
Quiboloy, an ally of the Philippine president who has referred to himself as the Appointed Son of God and is believed to be 71, allegedly forced the women and girls to regularly engage in sexual acts with him in what he called the night duty. Quiboloy, also known as sir and pastor, and his accomplices would tell his victims that obedience to Quiboloy was Gods will and that night duty was considered a privilege and a means to salvation, court records state.
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nycbos
(6,038 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)not religious but know the bible--2-Tim-chap3 1-5
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)anytime people are forced into stuff like sexual acts and threatened with eternal damnation, it's a cult.
TeamProg
(6,230 posts)as a "religion".
It's ALL superstition, not a single person knows why or how long the universe has existed.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)that's why I qualified it with forced sexual acts under threats. Do it or you go to hell sounds culty but is worse for serving the selfish needs of a pastor than for doing good things for the community.
The universe exists for you to donate money to buy me a 4th private jet or you will burn in hell for all eternity. It's God's will.
Kaleva
(36,342 posts)TeamProg
(6,230 posts)What else would you call it?
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Delphinus
(11,840 posts)thanks for saying that.
Claire Oh Nette
(2,636 posts)Old men using religion to control women. For sex.
Religion is a tool to regulate "the other."
Twas ever thus...
twodogsbarking
(9,805 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)NullTuples
(6,017 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Church/cult Same/same
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Working for God can pay well with great benefits.
Especially when you can wield God as a weapon.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)just saying
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Not sarcasm..... They can claim they have been forgiven by God.
RussBLib
(9,035 posts)...any callous murderer can proclaim that he was "born again" and forgiven by god, and who are you to question that sacred link between god and his sheep, er, followers?
just accept Jesus Christ as your "personal" savior (is there a "public" savior, btw?) and you are HEALED!!
such a fucking racket
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)On second thought, maybe it's not a disguise but a ministerial prerequisite.
brooklynite
(94,727 posts).....which meant Catholics.