Kenyan Pastor Paul Mackenzie ordered members of a doomsday cult to fast to death in order to meet Jesus. Authorities have found 403 bodies of people who died as a result of the cult. At least 95 others were rescued. The Kenyan
Kenyan authorities dug up more bodies found in mass graves linked to a cult whose pastor allegedly ordered his followers to starve to death to meet Jesus, authorities said Tuesday, bringing the death toll above 300. The 19 bodies were recovered within
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 southeast region
A court in Kenya gave police a five-day extension to hold pastor Paul Mackenzie, who faces possible terrorism charges in the deaths of at least 110 of his congregants, without bond. Mackenzie allegedly started a cult, where he convinced followers residing at
A Kenyan court has set a 3 million shilling bond for pastor Ezekiel Odero, an affiliate of starvation cult leader and mass murder suspect Paul Mackenzie. Odero’s lawyers acknowledge that 15 of his followers died at his church, but all were reported
Pastors Paul Mackenzie and Ezekiel Odero have appeared in court after being arrested in connection with a cult that led over 100 followers to starve themselves to death. Mackenzie, whose 800-acre coastal property was found littered with at least 110 emaciated bodies,
Kenyan officials say the number of deaths linked to a cult on the country’s Indian Ocean coast has risen to 110. Heavy rains stalled the exhumation process for the third day as government pathologists began autopsies. The official number of victims had
Kenyan police have arrested Ezekiel Odero, a popular megachurch pastor, in connection with Paul Makenzi’s starvation cult, which has left at least 103 people dead. Odero, whose YouTube channel has over 400,000 subscribers, bought Makenzi’s television channel after he moved to the
The death toll at a ranch in coastal Kenya that is owned by a pastor who is accused of leading a religious cult and ordering his followers to starve themselves reached 90 on Tuesday, as the country’s interior minister announced an expanded
Kenyan police dug up dozens of bodies over the weekend on land owned by a cult leader who allegedly told his followers to starve themselves to death in order to go to heaven, police said. At least 46 bodies have been exhumed