LANET UMOJA, Kenya -- When the administrative chief of this western Kenyan village received an urgent 4 a.m. call that thieves were invading a schoolteacher's home, he sent a message on Twitter.

When the congregants of two Kingman County churches discovered more about their newly appointed pastor, they decided to help the new member of their communities rather than turn away. When the ...

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