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In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, Steven Lacchin, 39, left, takes a selfie with Gerald Erebon, 30, right, who DNA tests indicate is his half-brother, as they meet for the first time in Nairobi, Kenya. An Associated Press story on the front page of a newspaper in Nairobi brought together the two Kenyan men - one who knew that his father was an Italian missionary priest, and the other who wanted proof that he was the son of the same priest. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Italian priest, and 2 Kenyan men who say he’s their father

By KHALED KAZZIHA and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Gerald Erebon looks over livestock at the Archers Post settlement in Kenya on Sunday, June 30, 2019. Erebon has been an outcast all his life: Tall, light-skinned with wavy hair, he looks nothing like the dark-skinned Kenyan man listed as his father on his birth certificate, or his black mother or siblings. He and his family say that’s because his biological father is the Rev. Mario Lacchin, an Italian priest of the Consolata Missionaries order who ministered in Archers Post, Kenya in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Church accused of covering up priest’s abuse, and paternity

By NICOLE WINFIELD and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Gerald Erebon sits with his aunt, Scolastica Apayo, as she holds a phone displaying a photo of the Rev. Mario Lacchin, during an interview at her home in the Isiolo area of the Archers Post settlement in Kenya on Sunday, June 30, 2019. Scolastica said her sister, Sabina Losirkale, finally told her the secret in 2012, two weeks before she died. “Now that my days are over,” her sister told her, she could reveal all: “When Gerald will ask you who’s his father, just tell him: Father Mario.” (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

‘How will we cover up this shame?’: The priest and the girl

By NICOLE WINFIELD and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press