The Vatican Village: Where women divorced their husbands to become nuns

The Late Marita Chialo lay Missionary at Asumbi Catholic Mission with some catechism students and families hosted at the mission due to rejection by relatives for converting to Christianity...early 1940s

When Pope Francis arrived in Kenya for his three day visit on Wednesday November 26, a village in Western Kenya will have something in common with the Pontiff. The head of the Catholic Church will be from Vatican. And the village in Mawego Kobuya village in Karachuonyo, Homa Bay County...is also called ‘Vatican.’

Here, Christians are in a pious mood, singing ‘May the spirit of the Lord come down,’ while fidgeting with beads on their rosaries, as they wait for the Pope’s visit.