Thursday, June 04, 2009

Kenya Church to sue schools over saints' names

Kenya's Catholic Church is threatening to take legal action against individuals who name their schools after saints and hire "ghost sisters" to operate them.

The practice, which according to the Church had become rampant, was spoiling the reputation of its learning institutions in the country, The Nation reports.

"They are creating confusion among the public and they do not uphold the standards the church lives up to," Bishop Maurice Crowley, the chairman of the Catholic Commission for Education, said on Tuesday.

The Church would take legal measures against such schools, said the bishop, adding that some unscrupulous individuals were putting up schools and hiring "ghost sisters" to run them.

"Parents need to know where they are enrolling their children... they run the risk of putting them through a totally different setting from that offered by the Church," the bishop said.

The Catholic Church runs 800 private schools and has also sponsored more than 4000 public primary and secondary schools throughout the country. There are about 26,000 primary and secondary schools in the country.

Bishop Crowley said Catholic schools offered certain values that were associated with the saints named after them, and using such names in vain by others was wrong.

But Mr Kingoo Mbithi of St Monicah Girls in Machakos said using the name did not actually mean the school was church-sponsored, nor was it a commercial bait for parents. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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