The Catholic Church has urged the country’s top leaders to act quickly against religious factions that have misled the faithful with unacceptable ideologies.
Murang’a Catholic Diocese Bishop Rt Rev James Maria Wainaina remarks follow the Shakahola mass starvation that left over 109 dead.
Speaking at Mumbi grounds on Sunday during St Joseph the Worker, Mumbi Catholic parish family day, the bishop emphasized the importance of the country’s leadership answering very critical questions at this time.
“In the Old Testament, whenever the people went astray, the kings took responsibility for their actions. A good shepherd will not lead the sheep astray; instead, he lays down his life for the sheep who knows him by his voice as he also knows them by name,” he added
The Good News International Church leader Paul Mackenzie is accused of driving his followers to death by preaching that starvation was the only way to God.
“Similarly, today we ask, where were the President and security agents during the Shakahola massacre? Mass annihilation of people is unacceptable and contrary to God’s will,” Wainaina added.
He was perplexed as to how such religious organizations were registered and urged the President to intervene.
The good shepherd Sunday, observed on the fourth Sunday after Easter, also serves as vocation Sunday.
Hundreds of parishioners from the Parish’s ten local churches attended the event.
