Kenyan Doomsday Cult Leader and Followers to Face Terrorism and Murder Charges
Kenya's director of public prosecutions has ordered 95 people from a doomsday cult to be charged with murder, manslaughter, radicalization, cruelty, and child torture over the deaths of 429 people believed to be members of the church. The case involves a pastor accused of leading a starvation doomsday cult, with survivors reporting that the pastor instructed them to fast to death before the world ends so they could meet Jesus. The discovery of mass graves and allegations of starvation and strangulation has shocked Kenyans, prompting calls for tighter control of fringe denominations in the country.