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U.S. prosecutors on Thursday announced听蝉别虫鈥�迟谤补蹿蹿颈肠办颈苍驳听肠丑补谤驳别蝉听alleging that girls and young women were coerced to have听蝉别虫聽with the founder of a Philippines-based church who is a friend and adviser to Filipino President Rodrigo听顿耻迟别谤迟别.

A 74-page indictment聽肠丑补谤驳别蝉听Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, founder of a church called Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name (KOJC), and other church officials, including two听鲍.厂.-based church administrators, with running a听蝉别虫鈥�迟谤补蹿蹿颈肠办颈苍驳听operation that threatened victims as young as 12 with 鈥渆ternal damnation鈥� and physical abuse.

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles said the new indictment expanded on allegations made last year听补驳补颈苍蝉迟听three church administrators based in the city. It聽肠丑补谤驳别蝉听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鈥檚 charity.

Prosecutors said the donations were used to pay for the 鈥渓avish lifestyles鈥� of the church leaders.

The latest indictment adds Quiboloy and five other new defendants to an existing indictment filed in 2020. Prosecutors said听鲍.厂. authorities arrested three of the new defendants on Thursday, but three others, including Quiboloy, were believed to be in the Philippines.

Lawyers for the new defendants could not immediately be identified and the Philippines embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The indictment alleges that Quiboloy and two other defendants recruited females aged 12 to 25 as personal assistants, or 鈥減astorals.鈥� It said they were required to prepare Quiboloy鈥檚 meals, clean his residences, give him massages and have听蝉别虫聽with him during what they called 鈥渘ight duty.鈥�

Quiboloy, a self-proclaimed 鈥淥wner of the Universe鈥� and 鈥淎ppointed Son of God鈥�, is a longtime friend and spiritual adviser of听顿耻迟别谤迟别. The influential evangelist is followed by millions of Filipinos.

In September, Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, a candidate for next year鈥檚 presidential election who has frequently clashed with听顿耻迟别谤迟别, sued Quiboloy for libel after he accused the multiple world champion of embezzling funds intended for a sports complex.

Church leaders are highly influential in Philippine elections.

顿耻迟别谤迟别听is prevented by the constitution from running for a second term as president. He has reacted negatively in the past to attacks on allies and last year vowed to terminate a key military pact with the United States after a Philippine senator who was an听补濒濒测听was denied a听鲍.厂. visa.