Makori

A dangerous silence

BY HENRI MAKORI Kenya’s The Star newspaper recently ran two major stories which, in my opinion, should have met with a strong and clear response from Catholic...

What do you see in the mirror?

WHAT do you pray about? Kenyan media recently reported that pandemonium broke out at Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi where thousands of women had turned...

A crisis in communication

A  few years ago, I attended a meeting of senior Church officials where a priest with many years of experience as a journalist suggested an idea which,...

Silencing the Church

Our guide led us through the quiet and sombre Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali. He explained every step of the official history of Rwanda’s 1994 apocalypse, from...

The forgotten Africa

The blare of vuvuzelas is everywhere, even here in Kenya where we have no real national football to talk about. The World Cup 2010 in South Africa...

Church on a losing battle

Have Kenya’s Christian leaders lost touch with the public mood? What will be the consequence of this? Founding president Jomo Kenyatta once described the Christian church as...