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...]
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...]
The families of the 34 individuals whose bodies were recovered and identified from the Shakahola mass grave site will start receiving their remains from March 26, 2024.Addressing journalists from the Malindi Sub-County Hospital on Wednesday, Government Pathologist Dr. Johansen Oduor…[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...]
MOMBASA, Kenya, Mar 7 – Controversial cult leader Paul Mackenzie created a scene on Thursday at the Malindi High Court created a scene after being allegedly denied an opportunity to communicate with his co-accused. The tension escalated when two prison…[Continue Reading...]
NAIROBI, Kenya -- A Kenyan magistrate Tuesday ordered the main suspect in a doomsday starvation cult and 94 of his followers to receive emergency care after some of the suspects had to be carried into the courtroom to answer manslaughter…[Continue Reading...]
NAIROBI, Kenya — A Kenyan magistrate Tuesday ordered the main suspect in a doomsday starvation cult and 94 of his followers to receive emergency care after some of the suspects had to be carried into the courtroom to answer manslaughter…[Continue Reading...]
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