A cabal of teens. A secret ceremony. A ritualistic raffle. Then a human sacrifice. It’s not an American Bible-belt cult. It’s a growing “doomsday” movement among Middle Eastern youth. Five youths took their own lives in disturbing rituals in the…[Continue Reading...]
An eight-year-old child testified about his ordeal in Shakahola Forest alongside his siblings setting a grim mood that permeated Shanzu Law Courts. Under state protection, the child bravely recounted his experiences in a secure environment, highlighting the gravity of the…[Continue Reading...]
An eight-year-old child testified about his ordeal in Shakahola Forest alongside his siblings setting a grim mood that permeated Shanzu Law Courts. Under state protection, the child bravely recounted his experiences in a secure environment, highlighting the gravity of the…[Continue Reading...]
Controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie leveraged technology and social media to lure victims into the Shakahola forest where they were massacred, a witness has told the court. According to a statement by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP),…[Continue Reading...]
Hundreds of victims of controversial preacher Paul Nthenge Mackenzie’s alleged cultic teachings could be buried within the Shakahola Forest following failure to positively identify their bodies through scientific means. Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor on Tuesday hinted at the possibility…[Continue Reading...]
The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya went on trial on Monday on charges of terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in a macabre case that shocked the world. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie…[Continue Reading...]
The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult went on trial on Monday on charges of terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in a macabre case that shocked the country and the world. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul…[Continue Reading...]
Suspected Kilifi cult leader Paul Mackenzie is this week expected to start facing witnesses in a case in which he and 93 others are accused of terror-related offences. Among those lined up to testify against Mackenzie from Monday, July 8,…[Continue Reading...]
At the Montana Society, a 12-step-based sober living and work camp in Paradise Valley, residents are restoring the ruins of an underground Cold War-era nuclear bunker into a vaulted-roomed, post-atomic retreat. “We took the abandoned and the old, and made…[Continue Reading...]
Near the end of his life, Joseph Kibwetere one of the ring leaders of the Church of the Movement of the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, a doomsday cult that would later cause the death of more than 1,000 cult…[Continue Reading...]
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