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Identity: Government officials and pathologists prepare to start the analysis of Shakahola Forest massacre victims. Photo: Simon Maina/AFP
SHAKAHOLA FOREST MASSACRE

First Kenya cult massacre bodies released

Largely Christian Kenya has struggled to regulate unscrupulous churches and cults

  • Hillary Orinde
3 min read
Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie (L), who set up the Good News International Church in 2003 and is accused of inciting cult followers to starve to death “to meet Jesus”, talks to his relatives as he appeared in the dock, at the Shanzu law courts in Mombasa on May 5, 2023. (Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)
AFRICA

Kenya court warns it may release suspected cult leader

The former taxi driver is accused of inciting hundreds of his Good News International Church followers to starve themselves to death so that they would ‘meet Jesus’

  • Afp
2 min read