Kenyan authorities will be converting the coastal forest where bodies of more than 250 people linked to a doomsday Christian cult were killed and buried, into a national memorial, according to Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki. Kindiki said the forest "where grave crimes…[Continue Reading...]
Nairobi, June 7 (EFE).- Kenyan officials say the toll linked to a Christian cult whose members fasted to death to meet Jesus Christ has crossed 250. Authorities have found more bodies from the Shakahola forests of Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast…[Continue Reading...]
At their modest home in Kenya’s western Bungoma County, Rodgers Shibutse noticed that his mother Pamela had become captivated by a popular but controversial televangelist known as Paul Mackenzie. Pamela Mukalasinga, 54, a small-scale trader and mother of five, would…[Continue Reading...]
Details have emerged on how good news international cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie presided over the burials of hundreds of his followers in ceremonies he referred to as harusi, the kiswahili equivalent of the word wedding, after starving them to…[Continue Reading...]
Controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie, his wife Rhodah Mumbua and 16 other suspects in the Shakahola cult probe will continue to remain in police custody following a court ruling on Friday. According to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions…[Continue Reading...]
The leader of a Christian cult who has been accused of encouraging his followers to starve themselves appeared in court in Mombasa, Kenya. CNN's David McKenzie reports[Continue Reading...]
CNN's David McKenzie spoke to the leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult which told its followers to starve themselves to reach heaven, leading to the death of at least 200 people.[Continue Reading...]
36 autopsies were carried out today. 18 were male, 17 were female and 1 was unidentified. Of those, 33 bodies severely decomposed. The post-mortem examination further revealed that two more followers of the good news international cult were murdered.[Continue Reading...]
Interior CS Professor Kithure Kindiki says detectives probing the massacre have uncovered sexual abuse and exploitation of little girls in Shakahola. The Interior CS say detectives have identified the shanties where the sexual orgy took place, adding that investigations have…[Continue Reading...]
Kenya's Interior Cabinet Secretary Prof Kithure Kindiki before the Senate Ad hoc Committee on the Proliferation of Religious Organisations which is investigating the Shakahola deaths. Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, a taxi driver-turned-preacher, used armed gangs with blunt objects to kill some…[Continue Reading...]
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