Amadeus Fernando Pagente, whose drag name is Pura Luka Vega, performs at a bar in Taguig, Metro Manila on December 22, 2023. Pagente has been arrested for the second time, police said on March 1, 2024, amid popular outrage in the Catholic-majority country over a performance in which he play-acted as Jesus Christ while reciting the faith's most popular prayer. - AFP
MANILA (AFP): A Filipino drag queen has been arrested and charged for a second time over his performance of the Lord's Prayer that caused widespread outrage in the deeply religious country.
Amadeus Fernando Pagente was arrested late Thursday and charged with three counts of the offence of "immoral doctrines, obscene publications and exhibitions and indecent shows", police said Friday.
