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Shakahola cult: Death toll at 240 after two human skeletons recovered from forest

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Death toll in Shakahola Forest massacre hits 240 after two human skeletons were recovered from the forest land linked to Paul Mackenzie on Monday. The bodies had decomposed, making it hard for the officers to identify their gender. Coast Regional boss…[Continue Reading...]

A religious community retreated into the forests of eastern Kenya. Then they turned into a starvation cult

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The man who walked into Langobaya Police Station had such a horrific story to tell, it seemed almost unbelievable. He told officers that he was gravely worried for his young nephews, who were living in the forest with their parents…[Continue Reading...]

Pastor Mackenzie’s Kenyan cult: The mother who fled Shakahola forest to save her children

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Salema Masha speaks softly, but her slender frame is animated by an inner strength that saved the lives of her five children. One day in March she walked them out of a remote wilderness where followers of a Kenyan televangelist…[Continue Reading...]

Toll in Kenya Church-cult deaths rises to 226

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The death toll in a probe into a Kenyan cult suspected of urging followers to starve themselves to death rose to 226 on Wednesday after 15 more bodies were found, the authorities said. Investigators are poring over the forest hideout…[Continue Reading...]

Unease as kin denied access to Shakahola ‘cult’ rescuees 

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The government has been accused of denying friends and relatives access to persons rescued from the Shakahola forest. Some of the families affected by the deaths of more than 210 people and the disappearance of at least 610 people have…[Continue Reading...]

Watch out for groups with ‘a hidden religious agenda,’ warns education ministry

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TOKYO Slowly, life returns to normal. It’s been nearly four years. COVID-19 has cost us dearly. There’s the death toll (7 million worldwide), the economic toll ($12.5 trillion, the International Monetary Fund estimates), and the psychological toll, incalculable and immeasurable…[Continue Reading...]

‘She left a trail of broken lives.’ The chilling true story behind In The Clearing on Disney+.

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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...]

Lecture series explores Brocton’s 19th century “cult”

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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...]

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