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When priests are killed, the killers also strangle a community's soul

The casket and portrait of Nyahururu Catholic Priest Fr John Maina on May 22, 2025. [File, Standard]

Two Catholic priests have been killed in Kenya. The details remain unclear, the motives yet to be known. But even before the facts arrive, we are left with grief, a hole torn in the fabric of a people’s soul, and a silence that echoes too loudly.

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