My friend has just shared this with me....
....Yesterday a Catholic Priest who ministers in one of the prisons in Uganda and works at my office took a man to visit his daughter in Luzira prison. The man had the girl outside wedlock, so she grew up with her mother's relatives, and never met her father. The girl had asked the Priest to help locate any of her relatives - just to let them know she is still alive.
The Priest went to Yumbe (Northern Uganda) and managed to find the girl's father and brought him to see his daughter. The girl did not recognise her father- they'd never lived together. They embraced, they cried, they had their first meal together in prison.
When the priest was leaving the prison, the warden told him that this was the first visitor the girl had had in 5 years. The warden then asked the priest why he had gone through all the trouble for 'those people' who the Priest 'did not even know' personally. The Prison warden was concerned because the man and his daughter were muslims.
'i know', replied the Priest ., 'this morning while at the monastery i gave him a mat so he could say his prayers'.
Query - Do we minister to only those we know?
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