Fr Filipe becomes Kenyan citizen

Archbishop Emeritus Peter Kairu with Italian priest Romano Fillipe at St Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Nairutia Nyeri county. [Jacinta Mutura, Standard]

"This is indeed the day that the Lord has made. I will always love you. You are my family and that is all I need until the day I die." 

Those were the words of Italian Catholic Priest Romano Filipe, as he received an important document that he had waited to acquire for half a century.