The death toll in a probe into a Kenyan cult suspected of urging followers to starve themselves to death rose to 226 on Wednesday after 15 more bodies were found, the authorities said. Investigators are poring over the forest hideout…[Continue Reading...]
The government has been accused of denying friends and relatives access to persons rescued from the Shakahola forest. Some of the families affected by the deaths of more than 210 people and the disappearance of at least 610 people have…[Continue Reading...]
A Christian doomsday cult in Kenya targeted children to die first in its final days, starving them to death before the adults followed through with the same plan. Police are investigating what appeared to be a mass suicide in the…[Continue Reading...]
SHAKAHOLA, Kenya — Delirious from hunger, a believer who had brought his family to live with a Christian doomsday cult in a remote wilderness in southeastern Kenya sent a distraught text to his younger sister this month. While he begged…[Continue Reading...]
SHAKAHOLA FOREST, Kenya, May 13 (Reuters) - Searchers for survivors and victims of a doomsday cult in Kenya's Shakahola forest discovered 22 more bodies on Saturday, according to a regional governmental official. The discoveries bring the death toll of one…[Continue Reading...]
Children were targeted as the first to be starved to death in the final days of a Christian doomsday cult in Kenya, according to fresh accounts emerging. Police investigating an apparent mass suicide have so far exhumed 201 bodies in…[Continue Reading...]
SHAKAHOLA FOREST, Kenya, May 12 (Reuters) - Kenyan investigators unearthed 29 more bodies on Friday in a continuing search for victims of a doomsday cult in the country's southeast. The death toll now stands at 179. Authorities this week have…[Continue Reading...]
Rhoda Maweu is the third wife of cult leader Paul Makenzie who is accused of urging followers to starve to death to meet Jesus. Mackenzie’s first and second wife died a few years back. According to the detectives, Rhoda Maweu…[Continue Reading...]
Police in Nairobi have arrested five suspected cult members who were worshipping in unorthodox manner in Kabete area, Dagoretti Sub-County in Nairobi. Nairobi News has established that at the time of the arrest, the cult members were in the company…[Continue Reading...]
A controversial Kenyan preacher has been summoned by police as the government cracks down on what it calls rogue churches and extremist religious leaders. Eliud Wekesa, popularly known as “Jesus of Tongaren”, the leader of the New Jerusalem sect, was…[Continue Reading...]
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