NAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) — Catholic bishops in Kenya are demanding a full investigation into the suspicious deaths of two priests within days of each other, calling the incidents deeply disturbing.

While expressing condolences to the bishop of Eldoret following the death of Father Allois Cheruiyot Bett and to the bishop of Nyahururu following the death of Father John Maina Ndegwa, Kenyan bishops expressed distress that both deaths appeared veiled with malicious intent and mystery.

“We wish to decry the death of these ministers of God and the sense of insecurity and helplessness created by such incidents against the servants of God,” said Archbishop Maurice Muhatia Makumba of Kisumu, president of the Kenyan bishops’ conference, in a May 28 statement, which regretted that life in Kenya ha

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