MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan accused of involvement in the deaths of hundreds of members of a starvation cult has died after a 10-day hunger strike in police custody, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. Joseph Buyuka was among 30…[Continue Reading...]
STORY: The bodies of more than 400 members of the Good News International Church were found and exhumed from the Shakahola forest in southeastern Kenya last year, in one of the world's worst cult-related tragedies of recent decades. Only 35…[Continue Reading...]
Over the last 2000 years, history has been littered with gruesome tales of zealots committing unspeakable acts in the name of religion. Few approach the disturbing level of butchery attained by the Order of the Solar Temple, an elitist Christian…[Continue Reading...]
March 26, 1997 was a bad day for a lot of people. It was a bad day for the family and friends of 39 Heaven’s Gate cult members, who learned that their loved ones had died in a mansion in…[Continue Reading...]
The family members clutched each other and wailed as attendants pulled small bundles out of the funeral van. Remains so degraded that a handwritten card identified each victim of the cult. “I did not believe to see my people the…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan authorities on Tuesday began releasing the bodies of victims of a doomsday starvation cult, almost a year since the discovery of mass graves in a grisly case that shocked the world. One family received four bodies that were loaded…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan government officials ignored "credible reports" that could have prevented the death of more than 400 suspected doomsday cult members, a state-funded human rights watchdog said on Friday. The piles of human remains were discovered in April 2023 in Shakahola…[Continue Reading...]
Wednesday marked the 29th anniversary of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured more than 6,000. At Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station, 16 station staff members offered a…[Continue Reading...]
The key suspect in the Shakahola Massacre, Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, boycotted his bail hearing on Wednesday alongside 94 others who are facing terrorism charges. His lawyer, Wycliffe Makasembo, told the court that Mackenzie had boycotted the hearing due to discriminatory…[Continue Reading...]
Alleged Kenyan Christian cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 94 other suspects will face 10 charges for their involvement in a deadly cult, according to a statement from the office of the director of public prosecutions on Tuesday. The suspects will…[Continue Reading...]
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