Apollo Quiboloy - Controversies

Controversies

Quiboloy has been sued by a former member for allegedly brainwashing and holding her young daughter against her will.

The communist New People's Army (NPA) has accused Apollo 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 P50,000 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 P20,000 for Diarog's head. Quiboloy, however, said the charges are "totally false and baseless, if not ridiculous." While Quiboloy has branded the rebels “mga anak ni Satanas” (Satan’s offsprings), the NPA has declared him a “warlord in the service of the Gloria Arroyo administration’s policies against the peasants and indigenous peoples.” Quiboloy also said on his television program that "he could arm 20,000 of his followers with M-16 rifles to fight the communist New People’s Army (NPA)". 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. Diarog’s farmhouse had earlier been burned down thrice.