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Post-Mayhem Woes

Tribal rivalries — including Christian-on-Christian violence — hamper healing.

Sheryl Henderson Blunt, with reporting by Sue Sprenkle in Nairobi, Kenya | posted 2/01/2008 08:40AM

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A Rift Valley Academy staff member wrote "A Postcard from Kenya" about living and running the school amid the ongoing violence.

Newser, The New York Times, and BBC News have updated sections on the violence in Kenya.

Christianity Today's coverage includes:

Baptists Serve Kenya's Displaced After Post-Election Violence | Nearly 600 dead in clashes, and more than 250,000 ousted from homes. (January 15, 2008)

Air Support | Kenya's MAF director reports on evacuation and supply efforts. (January 11, 2008)

From CT Liveblog: Ushahidi.com is mapping out incidents of violence and calls for help. (January 15, 2008), Despite today's news that Friday will likely bring negotiation talks, countless Kenyans still await food, shelter. (January 7, 2008)

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cw	Posted: February 13, 2008 5:29 AM

My question in listening to reports in the media is 'Where is the church?" If Kenya is supposed to have a significant number of Christians, where are the church leaders condemning the violence, protecting the people and challenging their own ethnicity and others to stop the carnage? The church in the rest of Africa should take note as well. Their silence is deafening. Perhaps if one of the leaders of the massacres was a homosexual they would be able find it possible to raise a voice of rebuke to the nation.

lawi	Posted: February 03, 2008 7:33 AM

The situation in Kenya is for the betterment of the church of Christ, it had been prophesied before in 2005 and last year 2007 by different prophets of God that the Lord was angry with the state of His bride in Kenya To start with the leadership of Churches many churches has come up in Kenya almost every building in town has a church but they have all turned to preach prosperity and forgotten holiness and repentance they have all focused on miracles and forgotten the miracle worker many preachers preach of how you will drive a Mercedes Benz and be reach if you planted a seed in terms of money many have been accused even in countries law court of getting money from poor Kenyans promising that they will pray and the poor will be healed of HIV and be rich everywhere is planting of seeds, many churches have been given names like maximum miracle centers …miracles miracles everywhere , many pastors have gone to an extend of getting powers from witch doctors so as to excite their flocks m

Gary Sweeten

Posted: February 02, 2008 10:26 AM

I was in Kenya just after other riots and killings among Christians and heard the cries that we must do more than just evengelize without deep discipleship. Discipleship is, of course, much more difficult than simply preaching the good news in big groups, but it can be done. When I spoke in the churches there they begged me to tell Americans to send more teachers and make more disciples. Until Christian leaders are trained how to actually coach believers to "Play the game of life" the tribalsim in Africa and hedonism in America will not change. Discipleship doen't even warrant a tab on this and most Evangelical web sites.

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