What did Pastor Paul Mackenzie do? Good News International Church scandal explored as over 40 bodies found in Kenyan grave
Sarah Richards
Published Feb 04, 2026
Minister Paul Mackenzie, who runs the Uplifting news Worldwide Church in Shakahola, Malindi, Kenya, made the news after a slaughter occurred in the Shakahola timberland. Individuals were left stunned after Kenyan police found many bodies in the eastern piece of the country. Not long after this, Paul Mackenzie was captured as he purportedly requested that individuals starve themselves so they could meet Jesus. He supposedly changed individuals over completely to his convictions and connected with them in fasting.
The bodies of individuals were found during an examination concerning a Christian faction that caused its devotees to accept that they would go to paradise assuming they starved themselves to death. Al Jazeera revealed that the police had sent off their examination on Friday, April 21, 2023, in a 325-hectare region of the backwoods in Shakahola.
As per the report, Charles Kamau, the head of criminal examinations in Malindi, said that they unearthed 26 bodies on Sunday, April 23, 2023. This took the complete body build up to 47.
Minister Paul Mackenzie is known for switching a few group over completely to his conviction. He likewise got into a fight with neighborhood school specialists after its understudies turned into his devotees and would try and take part in normal fasting.
Occupants of the Migingo town in Malindi, Kilifi District additionally shed light on questionable minister Paul Mackenzie. They said that he had migrated to the town in 2015 and that his only design was to switch as numerous devotees over completely to his convictions.
Neighbors told Kenyans.co that Minister Paul Mackenzie purchased a field in the Shakahola timberland where he moved in 2022. He additionally changed over many individuals into his devotees at his then-freshly discovered church, Uplifting news Global.
One of his neighbors, Johnson Katana, said that Mackenzie’s devotees started following him individually. He added that it wasn’t simply youngsters who abstained yet even grown-ups did and they were all available no matter what. Johnson added:
As referenced before, Mackenzie was captured a week ago. Be that as it may, he has now organized a yearning strike in his cell since his capture, revealed Kenya’s NTV channel. It is additionally significant that the Minister was likewise captured two times already, in 2019 and, surprisingly, in Walk 2023. The twice, he was delivered on bond and the two bodies of evidence against him are still in court.
The Minister after there were worries about the passings of youngsters. He was captured in Spring for empowering the guardians of two young men to starve and choke out them to death. Nonetheless, he has kept up with his honesty in the two cases.
The sick thing about that Paul MacKenzie cult is forcing kids to fast, I hope he will rots in jail.
— Cow Girl (@Msnyaguthii) April 23, 2023
Kenya’s Inside Clergyman Kithure Kindiki talked about the slaughter episode and called it stunning. Kindike said that it is the most clear maltreatment of the naturally revered common liberty to opportunity of love.
“While the State stays deferential of strict opportunity, this unpleasant curse on our heart should lead not exclusively to the most extreme discipline of the perpetrator(s) of the monstrosity on such countless honest spirits, however more tight guideline (counting self-guideline) of each and every congregation, mosque, sanctuary or gathering place going ahead.”