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Kenya cult leader charged with terrorism-related crimes in starvation deaths

The head of the Good News International Church, ordered his followers in southeastern Kenya to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended.

By REUTERS
18/01/2024

Kenya doomsday cult leader jailed for unlicensed film production

Authorities accuse Paul Mackenzie, head of the Good News International Church, of ordering his followers to starve themselves and their children to death.

By REUTERS
01/12/2023

The Jews of Jonestown: Jewish members of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple cult

How did a group of Jews end up thousands of miles from their homes, only to die in one of the most infamous events of the 20th century?

US arrests six 'Soldiers of Christ' after Korean woman's body found in car

The unnamed victim underwent starvation and beatings before her death.

Kenyan authorities should have prevented cult deaths, president says

Authorities accuse Paul Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, of ordering his followers to starve themselves and their children to death.

By REUTERS
15/05/2023

Death toll in Kenyan starvation cult rises to 73 - police

Kenya's Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome, visiting the scene, said the death toll included 50 people found in mass graves as well as eight who were found alive and emaciated but later died.

By REUTERS
24/04/2023

Kenyan police exhume 21 bodies from suspected Christian cult graves

Police near the coastal town of Malindi started exhuming bodies on Friday and recovered seven bodies that day.

By REUTERS
23/04/2023
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Kenyan police probe Christian cult after discovery of over a dozen graves

"Personally I have visited about 18 children's graves," Mikali told a local TV station. She did not say how she knew the graves contained the remains of children.

By REUTERS
21/04/2023

Jacob’s Ladder Festival is back and better than ever

The festival, dubbed “Israel’s Friendliest Music Festival,” will take place March 24-25 at Kfar Blum’s Pastoral Hotel in the Upper Galilee.

Putin fires official who called Chabad a 'neo-pagan cult'

Putin did not specify why he dismissed Alexei Pavlov from his role as assistant secretary of Russia's security council.

22/01/2023
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