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Apr 19, 2024 · Roughly 600 other members of GNI are missing and may have died, too. The cult Mackenzie led had roots in conventional evangelical Christianity. Roughly 20% of Kenya’s population of 55m are ...
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Mackenzie, a televangelist, founded his church in the coastal town of Malindi in 2003. Since then, he has constantly been at loggerheads with authorities after allegations that he was asking children to quit formal education. In 2019, he closed the church and moved to Shakahola with a few of his members. Mackenzie, who has often posited that he has...
President William Ruto on Monday said the cult leader belongs in prison as “what is being witnessed in Shakahola is akin to terrorism”. Other leaders have either visited the scene or issued statements, with some raising questions on Kenya’s state of security, intelligence gathering and community policing. In a statement, Amason Kingi, head of the S...
The pastor surrendered to the police on April 14 and is still in custody pending investigations. He has since refused to eat. Neither he nor any of his representatives have spoken to the police this time. “I am shocked about the accusations placed before me,” he had said after being released on bail last month. “I closed my Good News International ...
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Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985) and Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997), known within the movement as Ti and Do, respectively. Nettles and Applewhite first met in ...
Apr 14, 2023 · Cult Members Found Starved to Death in Forest After Fasting for Jesus. Four people have died and 11 others are in hospital in Kilifi, Kenya, after starving themselves to see Jesus on the alleged ...
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Mar 27, 2024 · 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.
Jun 13, 2023 · The death toll linked to a Kenyan pastor accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves to death to meet Jesus has passed 300, with the figure expected to increase as more exhumations are ...
Apr 23, 2023 · 23 April 2023. Rex/Shutterstock. Kenyan police have exhumed 47 bodies near the coastal town of Malindi, as they investigate a preacher said to have told followers to starve to death. The bodies of ...
