By RUSHDIE OUDIAMore by this AuthorFresh divisions have again rocked the Legio Maria church after a section of followers rejected a purported “handshake” between leaders of two warring factions who have not been seeing eye to eye for over a decade. Legio Maria, an indigenous African church popular in some parts of Nyanza and Western regions has had two leaders, both claiming to be the bona fide popes of the church – Pope Romanus Ong’ombe and Pope Raphael Adika. Any meeting of followers of the two rival leaders has always resulted in a bloody confrontation, and not even a court ruling has ever brought peace between them. HEADQUARTERSPope Ong’ombe and his followers have their headquarters in Got Kwer in Migori County while Pope Adika is based in Kisumu. Legio Maria church was formed by Simeo Melkio Ondetto in 1962.

Source: Daily Nation May 26, 2019 08:26 UTC