NAIROBI, Kenya, JULY 9, 2002 (Zenit.org).- More than 60,000 people attended the commemoration of the arrival of the Consolata missionaries in this East African country.
Among those present for the anniversary celebrations June 29 were 15 Catholic bishops and a number of representatives of Protestant confessions.
Bishop Peter Kihara Kariuki of Muranga, one of the concelebrants, read a message sent for the occasion by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
The Consolata missionaries arrived in the former British colony in 1902, a year after the congregation was founded in Turin, Italy, by Giuseppe Allamano.
The Consolata missionaries have direct pastoral responsibility in Kenya for eight dioceses and an apostolic vicariate.
