Please click 'Create Account and Subscribe' to create a new account and subscribe to our email alerts. We don't have an account for this email address. Please click 'Sign in and Subscribe' to continue. Please check you have typed it correctly.Īn existing account was found for this email address. We are sorry, but the email address you entered does not appear to be valid. Create Account and Subscribe Sign in and Subscribe Subscribe to our email alert of the day's top stories from the UK and around the world. Sign up for a FREE NewsNow account and get our email alert of the day's top stories from the UK and around the world. He ordered them to starve themselves and their children to death so they could meet Jesus in heaven ahead of that date, relatives of the victims said.Stay informed. In the most extreme possible sign of their adherence to his views, he told his followers that the world was going to end on April 15 and Satan would rule for 1,000 years, according to a Reuters report. With his TV show and videos on YouTube, Mackenzie’s popularity was propelled to greater heights. What was behind Mackenzie’s ‘starvation cult’? It speaks of their TV programme titled ‘End Time Messages’, which would broadcast “God’s word based teachings, preaching and prophecy on end times.” It adds, “The programme seeks to bring the Gospel of our LORD Jesus Christ which is free of deceit and man’s intellect.” Subsequently, Mackenzie established a sprawling campus in Shakahola forests, which are close to the coastal city of Malindi, lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya. In an interview with Nation, an African news outlet, she said recently that Mackenzie was married, but his wife died around the time Kahindi broke ties with him.Ī blogspot website of the pastor states that Good News International was established on August 17, 2003, and “The church has branches in various regions around Kenya… and Headquartered in Malindi Furunzi area.” It states its mission as “to nurture the faithful holistically in all matters of Christian spirituality as we prepare for the second coming of Jesus Christ through teaching and evangelism.” But disagreements over his teaching, and his accusing Kahindi of witchcraft, led to them parting ways in 2008. Together, they established an organisation. It also states that Mackenzie was assisted by a woman named Ruth Kahindi, who met him at a local Baptist church, and invited him to preach at her home. The report from The New York Times says, “Evangelical Christianity - and freelance preachers - have surged in popularity across Africa, part of a religious boom on the continent that stands in stark contrast to the rapid secularisation of former colonial powers like Britain, which governed Kenya until 1963.” It adds that evangelicals constitute a significant social group in the country and unlike Roman Catholic or Anglican churches, which are governed by hierarchies and rules, many evangelical churches are “run by independent preachers who have no oversight”. Paul Mackenzie, 50, a Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers to starve to death, appears at Malindi Law Courts, in Malindi, Kenya, May 2, 2023. Mackenzie was a taxi driver who turned to Evangelical preaching, and had been engaged in it for two decades. What led to one of the worst-ever cases of mass deaths in the eastern African country? Who is Paul Mackenzie?
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