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Kenyan priest assaulted by mob for attempting to rescue girls from genital mutilation
December 14, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: Father Amos Kimutai was attacked with machetes and stones and suffered serious injuries as he attempted to prevent the genital mutilation of some 50 young girls.
Father Kimutai is a priest of the Diocese of Eldoret, Kenya’s fifth-largest city, and a member of the Marakwet people, which practices female genital mutilation.
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