Pope Francis celebrates rain-soaked Mass in Kenya

Many thousands of people have been celebrating Mass with Pope Francis at a university campus in Kenya. Pope Francis made a plea for traditional values, saying “the health of any society depends on the health of its families”. The Pope earlier urged Kenyans to work for peace and reconciliation on his first trip as pontiff […]

Many thousands of people have been celebrating Mass with Pope Francis at a university campus in Kenya.
Pope Francis made a plea for traditional values, saying “the health of any society depends on the health of its families”.
The Pope earlier urged Kenyans to work for peace and reconciliation on his first trip as pontiff to Africa, amid a rise in militant violence.
He arrived in Kenya on Wednesday, the first stop on a three-nation tour.
Crowds in the capital, Nairobi, waited in the rain at the University of Nairobi sports ground since the early hours of Thursday morning.
Wearing a robe embroidered to look like beads worn by the Maasai, Pope Francis told them: “Our faith in God’s word calls us to support families in their mission in society, to accept children as a blessing for our world, and to defend the dignity of each man and woman, for all of us are brothers and sisters in the one human family.”