Verdict due for Kenya pastor accused in mass child starvation deaths

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Photo: Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Kenyan preacher Paul Mackenzie, who styles himself a pastor, is awaiting judgment in a case carrying 191 murder counts — nearly every alleged victim a child. Prosecutors say he told parents to deny their children food until they died. The case has shocked Kenya and drawn international attention to the deadly toll of the alleged cult. Source: BBC World.

Their Land Defiled, Forest People Swap Flower Worship for Quran and Concrete by HANNAH BEECH


By HANNAH BEECH

Indigenous forest people of the Indonesian island of Sumatra have been pushed from their land and away from their gods by timber, rubber, paper and palm oil plantations. Many have converted to Islam.

Published: October 13, 2018 at 05:00PM

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