Malindi Catholic Bishop Willybard Lagho (seated on chair) together with Malindi SUPKEM chairman Abud Salim Basmale (in white kanzu) join other religious leaders at Bishop Lagho's Emmaus residence in Malindi town for an Iftar dinner. Bishop Wilbard Lagho is courteous and soft-spoken but never hesitant to delve into religious topics or actions many people fear to engage in. Then a Vicar General of Mombasa Catholic Archdiocese, Lagho started a programme to teach ideological similarities between the Catholic and Islam in a bid to bridge the differences. One of the Muslim clerics Sheikh Aboud Bazmaleh, the chair of Supkem in Kilifi, said clerics agreed to forge common ground on issues affecting the society. Lagho’s appointment as the new Catholic Bishop of Malindi Diocese in December did not come as a surprise to many.

Source: Standard Digital April 29, 2021 16:35 UTC