Source: CNN
“A Kenyan cult leader has been sentenced to 200 years in prison for the murder of 191 people, all but one of them children, in a campaign of abuse and forced fasting. Paul Mackenzie, founder of the Good News International Church, was sentenced Friday alongside more than two dozen others at the Mombasa High Court. Mackenzie preached that the world would end in August 2023 and that followers needed to fast in order to reach heaven. According to a Kenyan Senate report into the deaths, his teachings were based on ‘doomsday or end-times’ beliefs. Children were scheduled to die first, followed by young people and women. Men were expected to stay alive long enough to bury the bodies before dying.” (11/06/26)
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/11/06/africa/kenyan-cult-leader-sentenced-intl