The government has set up a 15 member inter?faith council on the national response to the coronavirus pandemic. In a special gazette notice issued jointly by the ministries of health and the interior and  coordination of national government, the inter?faith council will be chaired by the most (rev.) Archbishop Anthony muheria. the council which unlike similar committees set up in response to the COVID 19 pandemic will regulate its own procedures and is only answerable to President Uhuru Kenyatta will be mandated to develop protocols for:

        the phased reopening of places of worship, progressive

        resumption of in-person congregational worship, the

        celebration of weddings and other religious ceremonies

        as well as to conduct religious funerals and

        graveside/crematoria last rites and send?off. 

        the council will also develop a programme for public

        sensitization and capacity building for all religious

        leaders and develop a prioritized implementation matrix

        that clearly states the dates for re?opening and the

        applicable capping of numbers. 

      other members of the council who’s mandated will run until

        the 31st of December 2020 are: 

        1.       Rt. (rev.) Bishop john obala 

        2.       Rt. (rev.) Bishop joseph obanyi 

        3.       Rt. (rev.) Moderator julius mwamba 

        4.       Rev. (can.) Chris kamau kinyanjui 

        5.       Rev. (can.) Rosemary mbogo 

        6.       Pastor (dr.) Samuel makori 

        7.       Al hajj hassan ole naado 

        8.       Sheikh sukyan hassan omar 

        9.       Sheikh abdulatif abdulkarim 

        10.   Rev. (fr.) Joseph mutie 

        11.   Bishop (dr.) David oginde 

        12.   Rev. Connie kivuti sujata kotamraju 

        13.   Rt. Rev. (dr.) Samuel thiong’o mwangi 

        14.   Sheikh Ali saidi samojah