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Kenya Sentences Starvation Cult Leader to 200 Years, but Two Trials Still Await

Paul Mackenzie was sentenced to 200 years for starving 190 children to death in Shakahola, Kenya. Families had demanded the death penalty. Two more trials remain pending.

Latin Times · Nov 8

Kenyan cult leader sentenced to 200 years for Shakahola forest deaths

A self-proclaimed preacher from Kenya was sentenced to 200 years in prison on Friday for murdering 191 people, mostly children, by forcing them to starve to death. Hundreds of bodies have been discovered since 2023 at the cult's base near the beach resort of Malindi, in what became known as…

Radio France Internationale · Nov 6

'I Lost Friends Too': Own Son Speaks Out As Kenyan Cult Monster Gets 200 Years for 190 Child Murders

A Kenyan court has sentenced cult leader Paul Mackenzie to 200 years for the deaths of 190 children and one adult in Shakahola Forest, while officials face renewed scrutiny.

International Business Times UK · Nov 6

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Kenyan Pastor Convicted of Murdering 191 People in Doomsday Cult Who Believed in 'Spiritual Reward'

Kenyan pastor Paul Mackenzie and 28 church leaders have been convicted over the deaths of 190 children and one adult in the Shakahola forest cult case

International Business Times UK · Oct 22

Kenyan Doomsday Cult Leader Found Guilty of 191 Murders After Forcing Followers To 'Fast to Death'

Paul Mackenzie and 28 co-accused have been convicted of murder in Kenya after followers, including children, were allegedly ordered to fast and more than 400 bodies were found.

International Business Times UK · Oct 20

Three years on from Kenya's Shakahola cult murders, families still seek closure

A court in Mombasa, Kenya, will on Monday deliver a long-awaited verdict in the Shakahola sect murder trial. Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, a self-proclaimed pastor, is accused of forcing church members, including children, to starve themselves to death in order to meet Jesus. Three years after the tragedy, families of the…

Radio France Internationale · Oct 18

'Morgue Is Full': How Kenyan Starvation Cult Kept Killing

The discovery of body parts and skeletons strewn around an isolated village in coastal Kenya has stoked fears that a doomsday starvation cult which claimed hundreds of lives has survived despite a major police operation.

International Business Times · Sep 25, 2025

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The church was named Good News. Hundreds of members died in a cult massacre that haunts survivors

In one of the deadliest cult-related massacres ever, more than 430 bodies have been recovered since police raided Good News International Church in a forest in Kenya

The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2024

Kenyan cult leader faces terrorism charges over mass starvation deaths

The self-proclaimed leader of an evangelical doomsday cult in Kenya has gone on trial in Mombasa, facing charges of terrorism for allegedly inciting more than 400 of his followers to starve themselves to death.

Radio France Internationale · Jul 9, 2024

Kenya starvation cult leader goes on trial on terrorism charges

In tonight's edition: the man accused of orchestrating the deaths in the notorious Shakahola forest massacre appears in court on terror charges. The bodies of hundreds of followers of self-appointed religious leader Paul Mackenzie have been dug up from the Kenyan wilderness. Also, US troops pull out from their base…

France 24 · Jul 8, 2024

Kenya Releases First Cult Massacre Bodies To Families

Kenyan authorities on Tuesday began releasing the bodies of victims of a doomsday starvation cult, almost a year since the discovery of mass graves in a grisly case that shocked the world.

International Business Times · Mar 26, 2024

Kenya to release bodies of cult victims found in mass forest graves

The Kenyan government will be releasing some of the bodies discovered in mass graves in the Shakahola forest last year, connected to a religious cult, after they were identified using DNA. More bodies are to be exhumed in the coming weeks.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 21, 2024

Kenya religious cult leader to face murder charges over Shakahola deaths

Authorities say Paul Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death, to go to heaven.

Al Jazeera · Jan 17, 2024

Suspect in Kenya cult deaths dies in custody after hunger strike

The dead suspect had embarked on a hunger strike after being detained in connection with a mass starvation in Kenya.

Al Jazeera · Jun 21, 2023

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Bangkok Post · Jun 13, 2023

Kenya starvation cult death toll exceeds 300: official

NAIROBI - The death toll in an investigation linked to a Kenyan cult that practised starvation to "meet Jesus Christ" has surpassed 300 after 19 new bodies were found Tuesday, a senior official said.

Reuters · May 15, 2023

Kenyan authorities should have prevented cult deaths, president says

Kenyan government agencies should have been able to prevent the deaths by starvation of more than 200 members of a cult in the country's coastal region, said President William Ruto, adding he took responsibility for the disaster.

Reuters · May 13, 2023

Kenya doomsday cult death toll climbs to 201 - official

Searchers for survivors and victims of a doomsday cult in Kenya's Shakahola forest discovered 22 more bodies on Saturday, according to a regional governmental official.

The Conversation · May 9, 2023

Kenya cult deaths: a new era in the battle against religious extremism

More than a hundred people in Kenya – among them children – have been found dead close to a small village in the south-east of the country. Most of the deceased were reportedly followers of pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie. While starvation appears to be the main cause of death, some…

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The Conversation · May 8, 2023

Kenya’s starvation cult left over 100 dead – a psychologist’s view on how to support people as they process tragedy

In early April 2023, Kenyan police discovered a mass grave linked to a Pentecostal church in the coastal town of Malindi. By the end of the month, at least 110 bodies had been dug up from shallow graves in the area’s Shakahola forest.

Reuters · May 4, 2023

Inside a Kenyan starvation cult and its tragic end in a forest of death

Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie lived with hundreds of followers in makeshift homes of polythene sheeting and thatch in a remote forest camp that he divided into areas with biblical names like Jerusalem and Judea, relatives of his adherents say.

ABC News · May 2, 2023

What we know about the Kenyan starvation cult and the pastors allegedly behind the deaths

The bodies of more than 100 people have been found in the Shakahola forest since police began searching the area in east Kenya.

Bangkok Post · May 2, 2023

Kenyan pastors face court over starvation cult massacre

MALINDI, Kenya: Two pastors are due to appear on Tuesday before Kenyan courts suspected of being behind the deaths of at least 109 people found buried in what has been dubbed the "Shakahola forest massacre".

The Guardian - UK · Apr 30, 2023

‘We tried to stop her’: Kenyan teenager tells how cult starved his mother

More than 100 bodies have been unearthed since church leader was arrested on suspicion of luring his followers to their deaths

ABC News · Apr 27, 2023

Another Kenyan pastor arrested over 'mass killings' as death toll passes 100 in Christian cult

A Kenyan televangelist is arrested after reports of the "mass killing of his followers", the interior minister says, as authorities investigate scores of other deaths linked to a religious cult from the same region.

Reuters · Apr 26, 2023

Kenyan father searches for wife and six children among dead cult members

Stephen Mwiti was too distraught to go identify the bodies of his wife and six children among the corpses of dozens of cult members recovered from Shakahola forest and brought to a mortuary in Kenya's coastal town of Malindi on Wednesday.

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