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A section of Turkana elders from Kenya during a peace meeting in Ethiopia. Credit: Fr. Joseph Githinji

Emotions Run High as Kenyan Catholic Parish Unites Warring Border Communities

Aug 8, 2021

Sometime last month, a group of Kenyan elders led by the three Priests ministering at St. Joachim and Anne Catholic Parish of the Diocese of Lodwar embarked on a peaceful march to Ethiopia where a group of villagers waited, equally eager to put the decades of violence with their Kenyan counterparts behind them.

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Emotions Run High as Kenyan Catholic Parish Unites Warring Border Communities

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