Children account for most of the 109 bodies so far recovered in mass graves linked to a cult in Kenya, the interior minister said on Friday, the latest details in a case that has shocked the country and prompted calls…[Continue Reading...]
Forensic teams have been digging in a Kenyan forest and there are fears dozens more victims could still be found after church leaders like Paul Mackenzie and Ezekiel Odero were arrested on suspicion of telling people to starve themselves to…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan police have arrested a popular televangelist and closed his church on the country's Indian Ocean coast following reports of mass deaths. The move comes as investigations go on into a religious cult linked to the deaths of nearly 100…[Continue Reading...]
The leader of a Christian cult in Kenya is due to appear in court next week, as the exhumation of bodies found in mass graves on his land continues. At least 90 have been discovered so far. Pastor Paul Nthenge…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
*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...]
The government will on Thursday start conducting a postmortem on the bodies exhumed from the Shakahola forest in Kilifi. This follows a directive by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji earlier this week. The Kilifi cult death toll…[Continue Reading...]
Pastor Ezekiel Odero of New Life Prayer Centre and Church is currently under investigation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for alleged indoctrination of members, following the recent deaths and recovery of bodies of suspected members of a cult…[Continue Reading...]
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...]
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...]
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