Shakahola: Path to Tragedy - The Good News International Church

Podcast: The Cult Vault · Vault Productions

Opublikowano: 2026-10-31

In this episode, host Kacey presents a deep-dive episode on Kenyan preacher Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and the Shakahola Forest deaths. WARNING of child deaths, starvation, and abuse. Born in 1973, Mackenzie founded Good News International Church after working as a hawker and taxi driver, broadcasting end-times messages that branded schools and hospitals satanic. He was repeatedly arrested from 2017–2019 and then moved followers into isolated forest settlements where residents were barred from mixing. During COVID-19, fasting escalated into a planned sequence of deaths, children first, with beatings, restraints, and reported sexual assaults; authorities ignored complaints until an April 2023 raid uncovered gr...