“Deadly Fasting” in Kenya: What We Know So Far

Pastor Paul Mackenzie Nthenge of Good News International Church is accused of having persuaded several dozen members to fast until death. 

by Massimo Introvigne

April 25, 2023

" ... Mackenzie’s Good News International Church is part of an informal network of churches recognizing the authority of Kentucky-born preacher William Marrion Branham (1909–1965) as God’s prophet for our times. Branham emerged from the word of Oneness Pentecostals (i.e., Pentecostals who baptize in the name of Jesus Christ only rather than in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) to preach a series of peculiar doctrines who made him a heretic in the eyes of most Evangelical Christians, including most Pentecostals. 

The so-called Branhamites (a label they do not like) may be some 100,000 around the world, and they disagree among themselves on many issues, including the exact role of Branham in God’s plan of salvation and who are exactly the descendants of the sexual relationship between Satan and Eve that Branham denounced, evil people who have in themselves “the seed of the Serpent.” Some Branhamites are white supremacists who consider those of African descent as carrying “the seed of the Serpent.” Others are not racists, and regard a  variety of people, most of them whites, from atheist scientists to feminists, as being the real carriers of 'the seed of the Serpent.'" 

https://bitterwinter.org/deadly-fasting-in-kenya-what-we-know-so-far/