Cardinal Koto Khoarai of Lesotho passes away
Cardinal Koto Khoarai of Lesotho passes away Created a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2016, the retired bishop of Mohale’s Hoek died on Saturday, April 17, at the age of 91. By Robin Gomes Cardinal Sebastian Koto Khoarai was born on September 11, 1929, in Koaling, in the diocese of Leribe, in what was then the British colony of Basutoland. He was baptized at the age of eleven, on December 12, 1940, at St. Paul's Church in Butha-Buthe. He studied philosophy and theology at the major seminary of Saint Augustine, in the city of Roma (Lesotho), in the territory of the archdiocese of Maseru, ...