Category: Frontline

For the last 9 years, Father Pietro Ciapponi, a Comboni missionary, has been working among the Karimojong, a group of semi-nomadic herders who lives in Northern Uganda. Livestock is their way of living, but it can also cause many deaths: conflicts involving cattle raids are common and sometimes lead to skirmishes with the army. Something that Fr. Pietrois trying to stop, by preaching the gospel of peace and promoting conflict-resolution initiatives. People are listening and, as a way of praising his work, they call him “Father Quiet Bull.”

The hope of clearing the scandals and injustices associated to Kenya’s elite
is vanishing. But there is still a spark: Till the end of this year, the government must announce the conclusions of a new investigation on the violent death of Father John Anthony Kaiser, a missionary who dared to accuse the powerful for not defending the poorest of the poor. If the case is fairly judged, there remains a chance of breaking the long chain of impunity in high places.