A well-known pastor in the Philippines was arrested on Sunday after a weeks-long standoff. The FBI is now hoping to extradite him to the United States, where he faces life in prison on charges of sex trafficking and child abuse.

According to NPR, CNN and CBS News, Apollo Carreon Quiboloy was arrested in the Philippines on Sunday.

Quiboloy, 74, is the founder of the Church of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and reportedly has a long-standing relationship with former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, dating back to when Duterte was mayor of Davao City, where Quiboloy’s church is based.

“No one is above the law,” the country’s Interior Minister, Benjamin Abalos, wrote in a statement on Facebook and shared Quiboloy’s mugshot.

NPR compared the standoff between authorities and Quiboloy and his followers to the U.S. government’s standoff with the Branch Davidian group in Waco, Texas, in 1993.

The confrontation with Quiboloy began on August 24 and, according to CNN, at times resulted in Quiboloy’s supporters forming human barricades in front of his church to stop about two thousand police officers who surrounded the church compound in Davao City.

Quiboloy, reportedly known to his followers as “The Appointed Son of God,” is accused of using his church for sex trafficking, in which he forced young women, including minors, to perform sexual acts for him by threatening them with “eternal damnation” if they did not cooperate, according to a 2021 indictment against him obtained by PEOPLE.

The pastor, who broadcast his services throughout the Philippines, has also been on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list since U.S. federal authorities issued an arrest warrant for him in November 2021.

The FBI accuses Quiboloy of human trafficking. The pastor is said to have sent followers to the United States “on fraudulently obtained visas” and forced them to “collect donations for a fake charity.” According to his “Most Wanted” poster, these donations were actually used “to finance the church’s operations and the lavish lifestyle of its leaders,” according to the FBI.

The FBI also accuses Quiboloy and his church of recruiting women “as personal assistants” – so-called “pastoral assistants” – to serve the pastor, the poster says. The FBI claims the women were assigned shifts called “night duty” in which “the victims were required to prepare his meals, clean his apartments, give him massages, and have sex with Quiboloy.”

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According to the indictment, the women recruited as “pastors” were between the ages of 12 and 25. The women were also reportedly forced to write “letters of commitment” pledging their lives to Quiboloy as “the appointed son of God,” according to the indictment.

Quiboloy was formally charged in November 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California with “conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion and sex trafficking of children; sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; conspiracy and cash smuggling,” according to the FBI.

According to NPR, Quiboloy could face a life sentence if he is brought to the United States to face the federal charges against him. Quiboloy will initially be arraigned locally in Davao City, according to the local news agency.

It is not immediately clear whether he has made a confession or hired a lawyer.

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