In 1987, the world learnt the disturbing story of Australian cult, The Family. On a remote lakeside compound on the outskirts of Melbourne, lived 28 children, raised in virtual isolation, away from the rest of the world. Groomed and abused,…[Continue Reading...]
The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center continues its free-admission Chautauqua County History Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday with The Brotherhood of the New Life, presented by D.R. Barker History Museum Board President Jeff Adams and Archivist Catherine…[Continue Reading...]
A Christian doomsday cult in Kenya targeted children to die first in its final days, starving them to death before the adults followed through with the same plan. Police are investigating what appeared to be a mass suicide in the…[Continue Reading...]
SHAKAHOLA, Kenya — Delirious from hunger, a believer who had brought his family to live with a Christian doomsday cult in a remote wilderness in southeastern Kenya sent a distraught text to his younger sister this month. While he begged…[Continue Reading...]
Rhoda Maweu is the third wife of cult leader Paul Makenzie who is accused of urging followers to starve to death to meet Jesus. Mackenzie’s first and second wife died a few years back. According to the detectives, Rhoda Maweu…[Continue Reading...]
A controversial Kenyan preacher has been summoned by police as the government cracks down on what it calls rogue churches and extremist religious leaders. Eliud Wekesa, popularly known as “Jesus of Tongaren”, the leader of the New Jerusalem sect, was…[Continue Reading...]
A Kenyan court on Wednesday ordered a doomsday cult leader accused over the deaths of dozens of people to be held behind bars for three more weeks. Paul Nthenge Mackenzie faces terrorism charges over what has been dubbed the "Shakahola…[Continue Reading...]
CHAD Daybell is one step closer to trial after a potential date was set moments after "cult mom" Lori Vallow walked out of the courtroom. The couple is accused of murdering Lori's children JJ, seven, and Tylee, 16, and conspiring…[Continue Reading...]
NAIROBI, KENYA - A court in Kenya on Friday gave police five more days to hold a pastor facing possible terror-related charges in the deaths of more than 100 of his congregants, many of whom are believed to have starved to…[Continue Reading...]
A court in Kenya gave police a five-day extension to hold pastor Paul Mackenzie, who faces possible terrorism charges in the deaths of at least 110 of his congregants, without bond. Mackenzie allegedly started a cult, where he convinced followers…[Continue Reading...]
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