Pastor Mackenzie and his Shakahola Kenya church are a gang of criminals
Authorities in Kenya have banned the church of a Christian leader who ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to heaven. The Shakahola church has been declared an institutionalized criminal gang.
Paul Mackenzie, head of the "International Church of the Good News," is currently facing charges of murder, child abuse and "terrorism" after the discovery of hundreds of bodies of his followers who had starved to death on his orders last April. In an official statement published in the government newspaper, Kenya's Minister of Internal Affairs, Kithure Kindiki has said that the church is an institutionalized organized crime gang. The announcement by the Kenyan government has opened the way for further investigation and the possible prosecution of associates of Pastor Paul Mackenzie in his crimes. The practice of exhuming the dead bodies of Christians who were deceived into staying hungry to receive Jesus More than 400 bodies were discovered in a months-long excavation of tens of thousands of acres of Shakahola forest near the Kenyan coast, in what is considered one of the world's worst religiously motivated tragedies in recent history. Prosecutors have said that they will indict 95 people for murder, terrorism and torture. The prosecutors have said that the reason for the delay in bringing charges to court is the serious and sensitive exercise of finding and excavating many human remains and examining them. Some of the other followers of Pastor Mackenzie were saved, being very weak in the Shakahola forest, in Kenya.
