Tag: Nairobi

Two pastors killed in Kenya

October 29, 2013 Kenya Al-Shabaab, East Africa, Mombasa, Nairobi, Pentecostals, Somalia, Uhuru Kenyatta, Westgate

Mombasa.Lauren Pressley / Flickr / Creative Commons Two pastors from southern coastal towns in Kenya were killed last weekend in separate attacks. Charles Mathole, a leader of Mombasa’s Redeemed Gospel Church in Mtopanga, was found dead in church on the morning of Sunday October 20, shot in the head . . . Read More

Tension high as Mombasa Muslims protest cleric’s murder

October 9, 2013 Kenya East Africa, Mombasa, Nairobi, Pentecostals, Westgate

Tension remains high in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa after riots in protest at the murder of a prominent Muslim cleric on Thursday (October 3) left four dead, about eight injured and the Majengo Salvation Army Church razed on Friday. It is just over a year since the church suffered a . . . Read More

Kenyan religious groups ready to work with President-elect, despite his war crime indictment

March 13, 2013 Kenya Elections, Kenya, Nairobi, Uhuru Kenyatta

Amongst their first formal meetings as President and Deputy President-elect of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto on Tuesday 12th March met senior religious leaders, even ahead of meeting outgoing President Mwai Kibaki. Kenyatta emerged the winner by garnering 6173,453 votes, meeting the threshold of the country’s Constitution which required . . . Read More

Nairobi church stands strong after grenade kills boy, injures others

October 11, 2012 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Kenya, Mombasa, Nairobi

“Every week we wondered ‘What if it’s this week?’ Yet every week we turned up for church.” Speaking to World Watch Monitor just after her Oct. 9 return from the funeral of 9-year-old John Ian Maina, Nairobi Sunday School teacher Sally Gatei was in reflective mood. “I told the team . . . Read More

Grenade attack on church in Kenya kills one

April 29, 2012 Kenya Kenya, Nairobi

A grenade explosion yesterday killed a 27-year-old university student at a church in Nairobi and injured 16 people, sources said. Kelvin Walumba was killed after a man pretending to be a worshipper at God’s House of Miracles International Church in the Ngara area of Nairobi threw three grenades as the . . . Read More

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