A court in Mombasa, Kenya, has convicted self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie and 28 of his associates of murdering 191 people, nearly all of them children, in a starvation cult linked to the Good News International Church. The sect was accused of directing followers to starve themselves and their children to death to gain entry into heaven before the world ended. The court dismissed Mackenzie's claim that he did not force the victims to starve, and the defendants, who had pleaded not guilty, will be sentenced on November 6. Police arrested Mackenzie in 2023 after a tip-off, after which authorities began uncovering bodies in shallow graves.
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