Nairobi, Jan. 31, 2006 (CWNews.com) - Archbishop Raphael Ndingi Mwana'a Nzeki of Nairobi has warned Kenyan Catholic faithful against attending services at a new church opened in the Kenyan capital city by traditionalist followers of the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

In a written warning to all parishes, chaplaincies, and religious houses, the Kenyan archbishop said that all Catholics should bear witness to their communion with the Holy See, by refusing to attend Mass at the traditionalist chapel. He argued that the split from Rome by Archbishop Lefebvre wsa "undoubtedly one of the main crosses of the pontificate of our beloved John Paul II, who had worked and prayed incessantly to avoid this schismatic act, realizing fully all the scandal and harm to souls that it would inevitably cause."