Kenya: Priest Seeks Police Help Over Sacred Tree Threat

7 January 2002

A church minister wants police to protect him after he was threatened with death for leading his followers in cutting down and burning a sacred tree.

The Rev Dominic Kiloku of the Assemblies of God Church in Laikipia District yesterday said elders in Mukogodo division had threatened to kill him after he declined to atone for his alleged desecration of a sacred tree traditionally used by the residents for spiritual rites.

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