WCC chief has lost close kin to AIDS: Over 40 million living with HIV worldwide
Samuel Kobia, a Methodist minister from Kenya and general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has been personally affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. At an event last month marking World AIDS Day organized by Swiss churches in Bern, Kobia told a gathering in front of the Swiss parliament that “within a short span of two years, I have lost a brother, two nieces, a nephew, a sister and brother-in-law, and four cousins” to the disease.