Black Lives Matter protests spill over to light rail, airport
Police arrested 13 people, but the protest was mostly peaceful
By Kelly Smith, David Chanen and John Reinan Star Tribune December 24, 2015 — 6:15am
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“We raised the bar,” said Pastor Danny Givens of Above Every Name Church in St. Paul after protesting outside Terminal 1. “We let the nation and the world know that black lives matter.”
A note on the apparent involvement of the Above Every Name Church. While Black Lives Matter people obviously have a legitimate beef more than a few, i think, Americans may be concerned that people from a church founded by a guy who says he is Jesus Christ is involved to the extent he is quoted in the article above.
There have been so many .. List of people claimed to be Jesus ..
* Apollo Quiboloy (1950–) is the founder and leader of a Philippines-based Restorationist church, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name, Inc. He has made claims that he is the "Appointed Son of God. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_claimed_to_be_Jesus
among them Apollo Quiboloy, of whose church it appears Pastor Danny Givens is a member.
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Who is Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy?
by Daniel Rodger and Ryan Turner
Apollo C. Quiboloy was born in a small village in Davao City in the Phillipines. It is claimed that at birth, his mother saw a vision of the face of God smiling down from the sky which said to her, "That is my Son." After high school, Quiboloy attended a Bible college and later became the national youth president for the United Pentecostal Church. It was after this that he formed his own organization The Kingdom of Jesus Christ or The Name above Every Name Inc. on September 1, 1985.
He has since claimed that Jesus came to be the Savior for the Jewish people in their Jewish setting, but he is the Son of God for the people of the Gentile (non-Jewish) setting. Supposedly he was chosen by God for this very mandate on April 13, 2003, although it does make us wonder how we Gentiles have done so well without him for the last 1970 years. Anyhow, Quiboloy left his denomination, the United Pentecostal Church, with 15 members where he then set up his current ministry where he remains today. Interestingly, he has since claimed that on April 13, 2005, that God has given him kingship and that God is finished with him, and he is now in a state of perfection similar to Adam before the fall. Influence of Teaching
It is suggested that there are 6 million members (4 million in the Philippines and 2 million abroad), the vast majority of which are in the Philippines although they are growing in other places such as Australia, England, Kenya and many other nations. To see just how successful they are see the link for pictures of some of his recent meetings in the Philippines.1
He is also so influential in the Philippines that he is starting to play a part in Philipino politics after recently praying for the former Philipino Defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro to become the next President. He even had many presidential candidates at his recent 60th birthday party. https://carm.org/apollo-c-quiboloy
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Controversies
Quiboloy has been sued by a former member for allegedly brainwashing and holding her young daughter against her will.[11]12]
New People's Army
The communist New People's Army (NPA) has accused 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 ?50,000 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 a ?20,000 bounty for Diarog's head.[13] Quiboloy, however, said the charges were "totally false and baseless, if not ridiculous."[14]
While Quiboloy has branded the rebels "mga anák ni Satanás" (Satan's offspring), the NPA has declared him a "warlord in the service of the Gloria Arroyo administration's policies against the peasants and indigenous peoples."[15] 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)".[16] 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, and that Diarog’s farmhouse had earlier been razed thrice. .. reference numbers left for reference .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Quiboloy#Controversies
Not saying it is being just thinking in case, it would be a shame if the Black Lives Matter movement was able to be underhandedly, in any shape or form, exploited for subtly camouflaged more politically tainted religious reasons in mind.
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