{"id":45377,"date":"2023-04-30T17:31:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T17:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=45377"},"modified":"2023-04-30T17:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T17:31:16","slug":"we-tried-to-stop-her-kenyan-teenager-tells-how-cult-starved-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/04\/30\/we-tried-to-stop-her-kenyan-teenager-tells-how-cult-starved-his-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We tried to stop her\u2019: Kenyan teenager tells how cult starved his mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32070\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/church-leaders-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/church-leaders-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/church-leaders-770x385.png 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/church-leaders-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/church-leaders-500x250.png 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/church-leaders-360x180.png 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/church-leaders.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, Issa Ali\u2019s mother took all her belongings and left her family to join followers of the charismatic church leader Paul Mackenzie Nthenge in the Shakahola forest in south-east\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kenya\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Kenya<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/30\/we-tried-to-stop-her-kenyan-teenager-tells-how-cult-starved-his-mother\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Two years ago, Issa Ali\u2019s mother took all her belongings and left her family to join followers of the charismatic church leader&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/exhume-bodies.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45378,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45377\/revisions\/45378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}