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Kenyan archbishop warns against repeating Ugandan By JOSEPH Catholic
NGALA
News Service
NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS)
—
Archbishop Raphael Ndingi Mwana'a Nzeki of Nairobi urged the government
to be on the alert for cultcould plunge the country into a tragedy like the recent cult kill-
strong signs of what is developing in our society," he said. Ndingi said Christians should know God does not advocate death and nobody knows when the world will come to an end.
who
ists
He
said.
A Uganda
of them could be dan-
Archbishop Ndingi
Some,
gerous.
said in early April that
Kenyans should learn from what happened in
Uganda, where some 900 cult members were
pointed out, even influence followers not to
Christians should
work as the world will come to an end soon and that there is no
advocate death and
the world to
will
He
stream churches and rushing to suspicious
prelate
religious organizations.
"Whereas there is freedom of worgovernment must watch out
ship, the
the educated, let alone the illiterates like the Mwala woman. These are
Classifieds
who
for fundamentalists
could mis-
lead the people into committing suicides
mass
and murders.
"Nobody has the
1998 a
life
right to take the of the other or influence its taking,
and the government has the cardinal responsibility of ensuring that people
CNS
branches photo from Reuters
own
in Rugazi,
Uganda,
27. Police investigating the
death of hundreds involved with the cult have discovered more graves. Hundreds died in a blaze at the cult's
compound
in
Kanungu March
17.
during the pontiff s visit to Uganda in 1993. "Certainly he (Kibwetere) did not
Meanwhile, the apostolic nuncio to
Plantation.
Looking
son to care for
my
Classified
for a caring, responsible per-
6-month old
son, in
my
said that the cult's leaders, in-
Commandments March
concern over the tragedy. The pope "is very, very concerned about the unfortunate event. I have
said.
opened
cluding two suspended Catholic
Uganda, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, confirmed Pope John Paul IPs
he
He
recently
in the three nations.
Prisoners dig for bodies behind the house of a leader of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten
informed him," said the nuncio in Kampala, Uganda. Archbishop Pierre dismissed claims by cult leader Joseph Kibwetere that he had met the pope
live their full lives,"
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Archbishop Ndingi said that in woman in Mwala, Kenya, was led to believe that the world was to end that May. She sold all her belongings and even withdrew children from school to stay home as they waited for the imminent coming of the Lord, which never occurred. "It is easy for those working with the devil's power to hypnotize even
cautioned
Christians against run-
come
an end.
said there were so many suspicious people with misleading interpretations of the Bible who could lead others to a situation similar to the Ugandan one.
Stanley Kinyata, in whose constituency the cult's Kanungu headquarters is located, said that the
need for earthly things.
nobody knows when
happened to our close neighbor Uganda, it can happen here. It has happened elsewhere," "It
minister of parliament
by telephone that Kenyans, Tanzanians and Rwandans were among those burned to death or found dead in and around various properties of the movement. said
he
Ndingi said
know God does not
systematically killed.
The
The cult leader "should produce evidence to prove that he met the pope. We don't have any proof that he met the pope," Archbishop Pierre
were springing up and some
ings in Uganda.
cult tragedy
meet the Holy Father. People don't meet the pope just like that," he said.
said all sorts of religious orga-
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the New;
priests, could
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"They must have hired the killers. For a priest to kill 'these numbers of people he must be wild and crazy," Kinyata said. He suspected that the murders were deliberate and
planned long beforehand by the leaders, because some of the pits containing dead bodies have been discovered inside and under houses of the cult leaders.
Police have arrested one of the suspected leaders of the cult, Joseph Settumba Ssemande, in the southwestern Uganda town of Rakai. t
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