Pilgrims pray during the 13th Mt Kenya prayer pilgrimage where they go round Mt Kenya in Kirinyaga county on December 27, 2021. [Mose Sammy, Standard]Hundreds of people from different denominations held their annual pilgrimage to Mt Kenya where they conducted prayers in seven stopovers as they drove towards the mountain in an anticlockwise manner. The pilgrims who included Christians, Muslims, Hindu, Rastafarians, and other faithful from different countries believe Mount Kenya has spiritual powers that when evoked, great things happen. Tying a blue ribbon on the wrist, neck, or their cars for easier identification, hundreds of people briefly stopped at Samson corner junction along the busy Mwea-Embu Highway where they prayed lifting their hands while facing Mt Kenya. “We believe the mountain is at the center of the world and after paying pilgrimage by surrounding it in an anti-clockwise manner, the country becomes stable.

Source: Standard Digital December 28, 2021 06:08 UTC