NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) While deploring the mass starvation of members of Good News International Ministries in Malindi, officials of established churches are resisting calls for more regulation of religious groups.
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In what has been dubbed the "Shakahola forest massacre," two pastors appeared before Kenyan courts under accusation of being responsible for the grisly deaths of at least 109 people who were found buried. Mass graves were found last month in a forest close to the Indian Ocean coastal town of Malindi, shocking the deeply religious nation with a majority of Christians.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) Police in Kenya arrested another popular pastor on the country's Indian Ocean coast as the number of deaths linked to a cult in the area rose to 103 on Thursday.
Pastor Ezekiel .