NAIROBI — Kenyan bishops came together the last week of May for a funeral mass for 15 aborted babies found on the shores of the Ngong' River. At the service, Right Reverend Cornelius Arap Korir said, “The terrible holocaust of abortion should be stopped,” according to a Reuters news story. Nairobi's basilica was filled to capacity for the service.
“The law has been too lax in allowing, particularly, health personnel to get away with this criminal act,” Korir emphasized. “Such negligence is what emboldens doctors to abort even term babies who are no doubt born wailing for mercy to be shown to them.”
Kenya's health minister revealed that three of the babies found were as old as 40 weeks, 36, and 32 weeks. Witnesses claim to have seen babies dumped in a similar fashion along the river road at twice-weekly intervals.
Fifteen small white caskets were arranged next to the Basilica's pulpit, where Archbishop Raphael Ndingi Nzeki exhorted political leaders:
“We…pray that our leadership come out and condemn abortion,” he said, while holding a picture of Gianna Beretta Molla. St. Gianna Beretta Molla, canonized in May by Pope John Paul II, was the Italian woman who died at age 39 rather than abort her unborn child as recommended by physicians.
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(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
