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...]
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...]
The devastating effects of the Shakahola fasting cult linked to former pastor Paul Mackenzie has left many families of loved ones that disappeared without a trace confused and destitute. At Majengo in Shakahola village in Malindi sub-county, Kilifi county, 28-year-old…[Continue Reading...]
Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has revealed that a section of Controversial cult leader Paul Mackenzie's followers holed up in Shakahola forest have fled towards Galana Kulalu and Tsavo National Park. Speaking in Malindi while overseeing the commencement of the second…[Continue Reading...]
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki is on Thursday expected in Malindi to oversee the commencement of the second phase of postmortem examinations of 129 additional bodies exhumed from the Shakahola mass graves. Kindiki will later visit the public information, tracing…[Continue Reading...]
Number of people reported missing in the Shakahola cult massacre stands at 613 as at Wednesday. Coast Regional boss Rhoda Onyancha confirmed that one person was rescued from the forest land linked to Paul Mackenzie, bringing total number of those…[Continue Reading...]
Death toll in Shakahola Forest massacre hits 240 after two human skeletons were recovered from the forest land linked to Paul Mackenzie on Monday. The bodies had decomposed, making it hard for the officers to identify their gender. Coast Regional boss…[Continue Reading...]
Salema Masha speaks softly, but her slender frame is animated by an inner strength that saved the lives of her five children. One day in March she walked them out of a remote wilderness where followers of a Kenyan televangelist…[Continue Reading...]
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