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Church in shock after caretaker disappeared with Sh 1.5 million

Detectives from Kangemi police station in Dagoretti sub county are in hot pursuit of a man who allegedly broke into a church and made away with over Sh1.5 million. The movie-like incident has left the clergy and congregants of Kangemi’s ACK All Saints Mountain View Church baffled, the money they raised on Sunday for development of the church disappeared from a drawer at the Church’s altar. When…

The Kenyan Peasants League Women Collective (KPL-WC) held an activity at Kangemi today to educate young girls on how to take care of themselves during Covid-19 and later on the young girls were provided with sanitary towels and pants. This is part of KPL-WC program to support girls from vulnerable families in and around Kangemi Area. More update to follow.

Why Nairobi mutura can make you ill

Food experts have warned of deadly germs in most of the popular ‘mutura,’ sold in Nairobi.

“It could make you very sick,” the researcher from University of Nairobi warned in a report published on October 23.

The researchers said more than half of cooked or uncooked ‘mutura’ sold in Nairobi were highly contaminated with disease-causing germs.

“Our study shows roasted and non-roasted African…

[NEWPOST] #UnusualUnits: Queen Gathoni

City Cotton

I am one of those people who refuse to die. I do not know why, but I know it’s not for lack of death trying to snatch me away. I should have died in Bottomline. First it was the frogs in the pond near our house that my mother threatened to feed me to unless I finished the food on my plate. Then there was the time I caught pneumonia and my folks knew for sure I was a goner. I…

Kangemi couple die after falling into pit latrine

The residents of Kangemi woke up to the news of the tragic passing of two of their own.

A young couple today morning fell to their death when a fight they were having got completely out of hand.

It is said the former couple got into a heated argument that they started chasing each other down the road.They must have been so caught up that they didn’t notice a pit latrine and fell right into it.…

Francesco l’africano, da Papa dell’Ovest a Papa del Sud

***di Piero Schiavazzi, L’Huffington Post, 27 novembre 2015 – Il viaggio all’Equatore completa la metamorfosi di Francesco, che cominciò l’8 luglio 2013 sullo scoglio di Lampedusa, eletta seduta stante a perno di un compasso planetario. Quel giorno è iniziata una rotazione dell’asse strategico del pontificato. Da romano in africano. Da occidentale a meridionale. Dal Palazzo Apostolico…

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Pope Francis Visits Poor And Young In Kenya Slum

Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome Friday as he visited a congested Kenyan slum to convey a message of solidarity with the poor and underprivileged, a highlight of his three-nation Africa tour.

The 78-year-old pontiff was given a rapturous welcome as he arrived in Kangemi, home to more than 100,000 people who live in shacks without sewerage, including 20,000 who belong to St Joseph Catholic.

The first People arrived more than two hours before dawn in the hope of catching a glimpse of the pope, who has made humility and help for the impoverished a hallmark of his tenure.

Fourteen-year-old Kelvin Mutwiri, who lives among the rubbish, came with a drawing of the pope in white and gold as a gift for the 78-year-old pontiff.

“Pope Francis I don’t want to be a street boy, pray for me,” read a set of prayers, beautifully drawn and framed by a group of a dozen children, who were rescued and supported by the church. “Pope Francis, pray for me, I am sick,” read another.

Wild singing and ululating broke out as Francis arrived in the Popemobile down the streets, weaving through the sea of tin-roofed homes.

“It is once in a lifetime,” said Edward Mwaniki, who comes from Kangemi, who waited for hours with his wife and three sons. “It is an honour to be here being a Catholic.”

After visiting Kangemi’s Catholic church, the pope will meet young people at Kasarani national stadium, where US President Barack Obama gave a keynote speech when he visited Kenya in July.

The Pope arrived in the capital Nairobi on Wednesday at the start of his first visit to Africa. He celebrated a giant open air public mass and spoke forcefully about the dangers of radicalisation and climate change.

On Thursday, the pope made a special appeal to young people to work “to shape a society which is ever more just, inclusive and respectful” of human dignity.

The fight against poverty has been a key element of his visit.

“Experience shows that violence, conflict and terrorism feed on fear, mistrust, and the despair born of poverty and frustration,” he said after arriving on Wednesday.

It was a theme he picked up again before Thursday’s mass on meeting leaders from different faiths. “All too often, young people are being radicalised in the name of religion to sow discord and fear, and to tear at the very fabric of our societies,” the pope said.

Later he visited the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, issuing a stark environmental message in which he warned it would be “catastrophic” if an agreement is not reached at a key UN climate change summit which begins in Paris on Monday.

“We are confronted with a choice which cannot be ignored: either to improve or to destroy the environment,” he said.

Thousands of people queued through the night braving torrential downpours to take part in Thursday’s mass.

But the numbers fell far short of the million people Catholic officials had expected to attend the service, with the weather likely keeping many away.