” “In Kenya, two Catholic priests too were forced to flee after seeing their churches burn, leaving their communities without priests. At the same time, all the Christian churches, along with the Muslims and Hindus, made an invitation yesterday, on all the local radios and TVs, to pray together for one hour for peace in the country. This was told to SIR today by father Martin Wanyoike, spokesman of the Catholic Secretariat (the Secretariat of the Kenyan Bishops Conference) and director of the Catholic radio station Waumini. "The fights do not only involve civilians, but priests as well, who are accused of supporting president Kibaki. So priests too are forced to flee, and no priests are left in the communities", says father Wanyoike, who speaks of two priests, a diocesan priest from Eldoret and a missionary priest from Kericho of the African Congregation of the "Apostles of Jesus", both from the kikuyu ethnic group, who were attacked on December 31st: "They told them they would not kill them provided they would go away he tells us . Then, they burnt down their churches and parish houses. Now, they are hidden in Nairobi. One of them told me that two days earlier he had celebrated the marriage of one of the attackers. It was a very saddening fact. So one wonders: where are the Christians in all this?" (continued)” “
