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The camera’s lens drifts across the unforgiving concrete of a Pasig City jail cell, then holds on Apollo Quiboloy. Though confined behind bars, his aura is undiminished. Born in 1950, he founded the Kingdom of Jesus Christ in 1985, proclaiming himself the 'Appointed Son of God.' Once spiritual counsel to Rodrigo Duterte and a confidant to Vice President Sara, he now sits in detention, a candidate for the Senate in 2025, awaiting trial on a portfolio of charges.