Christmas story is ours, Mandera included

In the images of the 28 and 36 bodies of innocent Kenyans murdered in Mandera County, it is too easy to project a son, a husband, a neighbour and a colleague. Here were Christians who had selflessly served the Muslim community, giving essential services mainly in education and health, whose dream of joining family for Christmas was cruelly cut off.

While we are grieving, we still need to say with a strong voice that we recognise our country’s needs to be roused to better listen, to more fully understand, and mourn more deeply. Hopefully, as we grow as a multi-religious mosaic, we will see things more clearly and feel things more deeply.