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Their pastor allegedly told them that they would "meet Jesus Christ" after fasting for 40 days.

The religious cult followers from Soroti had travelled to Ethiopia believing they would find salvation through starving.

Ugandan authorities said Tuesday that 80 followers of a religious cult from the country's east had been deported from Ethiopia where they travelled believing they would find salvation through starvation.

Their pastor allegedly told them that they would "meet Jesus Christ" after fasting for 40 days.

Some 80 followers of a cult in eastern Uganda who travelled to Ethiopia in February at the call of a pastor to find salvation by fasting to death have been repatriated, the Ugandan authorities said on Tuesday.

Ugandan authorities have said that 80 followers of a religious cult from the country's east had been deported from Ethiopia where they travelled believing they would find salvation through starving.

Ugandan authorities said Tuesday that 80 followers of a religious cult from the countrys east had been deported from Ethiopia where they travelled believing they would find salvation through starving.

Their pastor allegedly told them that they would "meet Jesus Christ" after fasting for 40 days.

Their pastor allegedly told them that they would "meet Jesus Christ" after fasting for 40 days.