Nairobi
Kenya doomsday cult deaths top 400 as detectives exhume 12 more bodies, with the pastor in custody
By Evelyne Musambi — July 20, 2023
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Some 613 people have so far been reported missing to Kenya Red Cross officers stationed in Malindi town. Detectives are still finding mass graves.
Kenya’s deaf choir changes minds about ‘burdens’ of disabilities
By Fredrick Nzwili — January 31, 2023
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The choir’s example has helped convince Kenyan churches to embrace deaf culture.
Kenyan faith leaders fight to preserve ‘Sunday best’ at church
By Fredrick Nzwili — January 18, 2023
(RNS) — While some of the new debate over dress codes in church has to do with morality, one Catholic priest explained a more practical concern: ‘One needs to be properly dressed so that they are not a distraction to other worshippers who want to focus on their creator.’
Christmas holiday bus attacks in Kenya bring condemnation from Christian and Muslim leaders
By Fredrick Nzwili — December 16, 2020
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Christian and Muslim leaders have stepped up interfaith dialogue in hopes of reining in the bus attacks and other threats to the border region’s small Christian community.
Church leaders pray for Ethiopian Airlines crash victims as they grieve for clergy
By Fredrick Nzwili — March 12, 2019
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Leaders of Africa’s faith traditions united in prayer for the 157 victims, who included two priests and a Roman Catholic nun.
Kenyan faith leaders condemn Nairobi attack as al-Shabab takes responsibility
By Fredrick Nzwili — January 16, 2019
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Muslim and Christian clerics urged Kenyans to forge ahead together despite the militant Islamist group's attempt to use religion to put a wedge between them.
Lone street guitarist shares Christmas spirit in Nairobi
By Fredrick Nzwili — December 24, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Samson Kule Mannasseih, an Anglican street singer, brings Christmas cheer to the streets of Nairobi by sharing 'the music that calms everyone.'
Commuting to Nairobi, the train becomes a church
By Lauren Markoe — October 2, 2017
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Self-styled preachers unofficially turn two coaches into church each day, ministering to a mobile congregation that might not otherwise attend a service.
Kenyan churches, mosques painted yellow to symbolize love
By Fredrick Nzwili — August 23, 2016
(RNS) Houses of worship take on the color of sunshine in the name of interfaith harmony.
Kenyan clergy joins battle against deadly homemade brews
By Fredrick Nzwili — August 12, 2015
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) The homemade alcoholic drinks, popularly dubbed chang'aa ("kill me quick") or Kumi Kumi (ten-ten shillings), are popular with the poor, who cannot afford commercially brewed bottled beer, which is heavily taxed.
U.S. missionary doctor suspended after challenging cardinal, nuns
By Fredrick Nzwili — May 22, 2013
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) The New York-based Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers suspended the Rev. Dr. William Charles Fryda after he refused to drop a case he filed three years ago against Kenya's top cardinal and a group of nuns over control of two missionary hospitals.
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