SHAKAHOLA FOREST, Kenya, May 9 (Reuters) - Kenyan investigators exhumed 21 more bodies on Tuesday as they resumed a search for followers of a doomsday cult, who the interior minister described as victims of a "highly organised crime". Paul Mackenzie,…[Continue Reading...]
Autopsies on corpses found in mass graves linked to a Kenyan cult have revealed missing organs and raised suspicions of forced harvesting, investigators said Tuesday as another 21 bodies were found. A total of 133 people have so far been…[Continue Reading...]
SHAKAHOLA FOREST, Kenya, May 9 (Reuters) - Kenyan investigators have resumed the search for members of a doomsday cult in a forest where more than 100 corpses, mostly of children, have been exhumed, victims of a "highly organised crime", Interior…[Continue Reading...]
A team of officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), National Intelligence Service (NIS) and community leaders on Monday, May 8, raided a church in Kwale following reports of cultic teachings by the preacher. The team stormed into Rainbow…[Continue Reading...]
Autopsies on corpses found in mass graves linked to a religious cult in Kenya have revealed missing organs and raised suspicions of forced harvesting, investigators said, with a fresh round of exhumations to resume on Tuesday. The discovery of mass…[Continue Reading...]
In early April 2023, Kenyan police discovered a mass grave linked to a Pentecostal church in the coastal town of Malindi. By the end of the month, at least 110 bodies had been dug up from shallow graves in the…[Continue Reading...]
NAIROBI, KENYA - A court in Kenya on Friday gave police five more days to hold a pastor facing possible terror-related charges in the deaths of more than 100 of his congregants, many of whom are believed to have starved to…[Continue Reading...]
A court in Kenya gave police a five-day extension to hold pastor Paul Mackenzie, who faces possible terrorism charges in the deaths of at least 110 of his congregants, without bond. Mackenzie allegedly started a cult, where he convinced followers…[Continue Reading...]
NAIROBI, May 5 (Reuters) - Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday appointed a commission of inquiry into the deaths of more than 100 people believed to have starved themselves to death, while a court ordered that their alleged cult leader…[Continue Reading...]
Sects led by people who claim to have supernatural experiences could potentially be dangerous cults that must be avoided, the Catholic Bishop of Kenya’s Malindi Diocese has said. In an interview with ACI Africa, Bishop Willybard Kitogho Lagho said that…[Continue Reading...]
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