Allen Ottaro, 28, lives in Nairobi, Kenya. A parishioner at St. Paul’s Catholic University Chapel in the Archdiocese of Nairobi, he studied Environmental Planning and Management at Kenyatta University. Mr. Ottaro is the national coordinator of MAGiS Kenya, an Ignatian young adult ministry, and has worked with the African Jesuit AIDS Network. He is also a cofounder Read more
Following July 1 attacks on churches in the town of Garissa — close to the Kenyan-Somali border — local Muslim leaders have decided to provide their own protection to the churches of their Christian neighbours. Last Sunday, July 8, local Muslim youths and their leaders patrolled with the police during church services, and no attacks Read more
Attacks by masked gunmen on church congregations in Kenya have prompted the country’s Catholic bishops to urge the government to improve security measures. The July 1 violence at Our Lady of Consolation Catholic Cathedral and the Protestant Africa Inland Church left at least 17 people dead and more than 50 injured. Witnesses said up to Read more
In Somalia, drought and ongoing conflict have reached crisis levels and affect over half of the population. More than 250,000 Somalis have fled their country in 2011 alone. The mass movement of rural Somalis across the border to Kenya has put significant pressure on already overcrowded refugee camps in Kenya.
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The British public has raised NZ$80 million for Somalia in just over three weeks, but three more regions have been hit by the famine, so much more is needed. Brendan Gormley, chief execution of the British Disasters Emergency Committee said: “To raise NZ$80 million in just over three weeks is a wonderful demonstration of public Read more