JM News UK

Pope Francis on Thursday appealed to Somali Islamist militants who killed 148 people at a Kenyan university last month to stop their brutality and "come to their senses". He told Kenyan bishops visiting the Vatican that he prayed for those killed by acts of terror, ethnic and tribal hostilities in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa. "I think most especially of the men and women killed at Garissa University College on Good Friday," the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics said. He urged the visiting bishops to work with Christian and non-Christian leaders to promote peace in predominantly-Christian Kenya.