Nairobi, 18 March, 2020 / 5:10 am (ACI Africa).
Citizens of the East African nation of Kenya are being encouraged “to turn to God”, express their fears and seek His “ever-present protection” as COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, spreads across the globe, with Kenya confirming a fourth case Tuesday, March 17.
“We cannot ignore the need to turn to God,” Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta said in an official statement in which he declared Saturday, March 21 a National Day of Prayer.
In these circumstances as we have done in the past as a nation, we have always turned to God first to give thanks for the many blessings that He has bestowed on our nation. But we also turn to God to share our fears, our apprehensions, but also to seek his guidance and ever-present protection,” President Kenyatta explained in his Tuesday, March 17 statement issued at State House in Nairobi.
The Saturday prayer day, the President said, “will be led by a team of religious leaders here at State House, Nairobi starting at 12.00 noon on Saturday,”
“We acknowledge always that we are nothing without our God,” President Kenyatta, a Catholic, said and continued in reference to the challenge of the deadly coronavirus disease, “We have learnt over time that turning to God in such times gives us not only comfort but also hope and strength to overcome even those challenges that for us as humans may seem insurmountable.”
