Filipino Televangelist Pleads Not Guilty to Child Abuse and Human Trafficking Charges

Filipino Televangelist Pleads Not Guilty to Child Abuse and Human Trafficking Charges
Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, wearing a helmet and flak jacket, a Filipino preacher charged with human trafficking, enters the Pasig Regional Trial Court in Pasig City, Philippines, on Sept. 13, 2024. Gerard Carreon/AP Photo
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MANILA, Philippines—A Philippine televangelist, who calls himself the “anointed son of God” and once claimed to have stopped an earthquake, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of abuse of minors and human trafficking in a court arraignment that’s the latest mark of his reversal of fortune.

Apollo Carreon Quiboloy and four of his co-accused were brought under heavy security to the regional trial court in Pasig city in metropolitan Manila for the human trafficking charges and was later arraigned by video from police detention by another court handling a separate non-bailable case of child abuse.