Covering as few points as possible with a spherical cap

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This is a generalisation of this question, posted yesterday.

If we have a set of points $x_i$ on the surface of a sphere, or more generally a $d$-dimensional hypersphere, and we have a hyperspherical cap with a surface area a proportion $p$ of that of the whole sphere, is there always a position for the spherical cap such that it intersects no more than $p$ of the $x_i$?

The argument I used for the previous question doesn't seem to easily generalise because spherical caps can't cleanly tile a sphere.