12 killed as Islamist gunmen target Christians in Kenya shooting
Islamic extremist gunmen from neighbouring Somalia killed 12 people in an attack on non-Muslims in Kenya’s northern Mandera County, an official said on Tuesday. Somalia’s al-Shabab rebels claimed...
View ArticleMore must be done to stop corruption, say Kenyan bishops
Kenya’s Catholic bishops urged the government to intensify its efforts to eliminate corruption in the country. The bishops said “the disease of corruption … seems to be perpetrated without shame or...
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Evangelicals must not gloss over fundamental differences with Catholics, the Evangelical Alliance has said in a statement marking the Reformation’s 500th anniversary (full text). The head of the Kenyan...
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Catholics in South Sudan hope the papal visit to the country “hasn’t been put off completely”, bishops’ conference president Bishop Edward Hiiboro Kussala has said. A court has ordered Kenya’s bishops...
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There is “no Christian mission in the name of tranquility”, Pope Francis said at yesterday’s Angelus (full text, full video). Kenya’s bishops have issued a pastoral letter calling for a “peaceful and...
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Vatican Cardinal Pietro Parolin held talks with Metropolitan Hilarion on the first day of his Russia visit. Papal ghostwriter Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández has accused Amoris Laetitia’s critics of...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 28/09/17
Pope Francis has backed a new Caritas campaign calling for the acceptance of migrants (video). Bishops have urged politicians to “save Kenya from burning” before next month’s presidential election...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 23/11/17
Vatican Cardinal Marc Ouellet has hailed Amoris Laetitia as “a prime example of the Ignatian charism in practice”. Ghana’s bishops have called for an end to “self-inflicted destruction” caused by...
View ArticleSome Kenyan Christians support polygamy, but the Catholic Church says no
Flanked by his three wives and 12 children in his grocery shop in Kenya’s biggest slum, Kibera, Gilbert Wandera said men should marry multiple wives to prevent single motherhood and to ensure that...
View ArticleKenyan priest suspended for rapping
A priest in Kenya has been suspended for misconduct after rapping in church. Fr Paul Ogalo had been using rap music to attract youth to Church and spread messages against drugs and in favour of social...
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