Tag: Kenya
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Kenyan doomsday cult leader Paul Mackenzie faces 191 murder charges
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. FOLLOWING the closure last year of Good News International Ministries by authorites in the wake of more than 400 deaths from starvation by followers, church leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, above, a former taxi driver-turned-televangelist, now faces trial for the murder…
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‘Even Satan wasn’t gay.’ Religious fanatics in Kenya unite to protest the legal registration of an LGBT+ group
FOLLOWING our report that Christians and Muslims recently found common ground in Canada—their hatred of LGBT+ communities—comes news from Kenya that protests have taken place over a Supreme Court decision to allowed the registration of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHR). The Nation reports that religious leaders called for the review of…
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Kenyan publisher forced to withdraw a school textbook containing an image said to be that of Mohammed
THE Mentor Publishing Co Ltd has admitted to “sacriledge” for including a cartoon which it “mistakenly identified” as Islam’s prophet. According to this Nation report, among enraged Muslim parents was Mrs Amina Mohammed who asked: Who checks the publishers? Do they have proof readers? How could this pass? In the Grade 2 Mentor Encyclopaedia book,…
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Kenyan shutters church responsible for the death by starvation of 427
GOOD News International Ministries, led by a Kenyan pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, inset above, has been forced to close, along with four other “extremists” churches, including the Helicopter Church of Christ in Nairobi. Religion News Service reports that Kenya’s Registrar of Societies deregisted the death cult, founded in 2003 with an “End Times” message. Earlier…
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Starving for Jesus: Kenyan cult leader’s prison hunger strike ends with his death
JOSEPH Buyuka, accused of being one of the leaders of a death cult led by pastor Paul Mackenzie (inset above), has died in custody while awaiting trial. He had been arrested in connection with the deaths of 337 members of Mackenzie’s Good News International Church, and had been on a 10-day hunger strike. Buyuka, according…
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‘Don’t link death cult with religion,’ says Kenya’s evangelical President
LATEST reports from Kenya, where police are combing a forest occupied by a Christian cult led by pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, above, indicate that 73 bodies have now been recovered, with more expected. The death toll, which has continued to rise as exhumations of shallow graves are carried out, could rise further. The Kenyan Red…
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Cult leader, accused of exhorting his followers to starve to death for Jesus, embarks on a hunger strike
KENYAN pastor Paul Mackenzie, above, of the Good News International Church—accused of encouraging followers to fast until they die—is himself refusing food and water. Mackenzie surrendered himself to police after a number of shallow graves were found on land believed to be owned by the church. According to this report, 8 more bodies were found…
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