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Popular Kenyan televangelist admits to 15 deaths at his church

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Ezekiel Odero is being detained and investigated for murder, aiding suicide, abduction, radicalisation, genocide, crimes against humanity, child cruelty, fraud, money laundering and being an accessory to crimes His lawyers said their client is not linked in any way to…[Continue Reading...]

Kenya cult toll climbs to 98 as families await news of missing

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The number of victims linked to a suspected starvation cult in Kenya climbed to 98 on Wednesday as weeping relatives anxiously awaited news of loved ones after investigators unearthed mass graves last week. The discovery of dozens of bodies buried…[Continue Reading...]

Cult investigation: Kenya sets curfew on ranch owned by detained ‘pastor’

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*Movement will be restricted in the 320-hectare ranch owned by a Kenyan pastor who is accused of directing his followers to fast to death. The country's interior minister announced Wednesday (Apr.26) that for 30 days, the area will be subjected…[Continue Reading...]

Good News International Church Pastor Paul Mackenzie during an interview with the ‘Nation’ in Kilifi County on March 24, 2023. The pastor is under arrest following the deaths of four followers, whom he reportedly told to starve themselves in order to “meet Jesus”. PHOTO | NMG

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A series of blunders by controversial televangelist Paul Mackenzie and his aides made his freedom short-lived after he was released by a court last month, leading to the discovery of mass graves in Kilifi’s Shakahola village. On March 23, Mackenzie…[Continue Reading...]

Kenyan father searches for wife and six children among dead cult members

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MALINDI, Kenya, April 26 (Reuters) - Stephen Mwiti was too distraught to go identify the bodies of his wife and six children among the corpses of dozens of cult members recovered from Shakahola forest and brought to a mortuary in…[Continue Reading...]

‘Weak and traumatized’ survivors found as 89 bodies recovered in Kenya starvation cult case

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Police have now recovered 89 bodies from mass graves in a forest in eastern Kenya, believed to be linked to a cult that allegedly encouraged its followers to starve themselves to gain salvation, the country’s government said. Kithure Kindiki, the…[Continue Reading...]

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