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Catholic nuns say they were tortured, enslaved in Ecuador

Sister Sharone Ateyo and Felistas Mutheu Mumbi during the interview [Bakari Angela, Standard]

The Catholic Church will investigate shocking claims of slavery in Ecuador, South America, involving two Kenyan nuns who have just come back.

The two — Sister Sharon Ateyo and Sister Felistas Mutheu Mumbi — formerly of Social Missionary Sisters of the Church congregation claim they were held under slave-like conditions in Ecuador awaiting their final vows before being expelled.

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