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Kangemi Catholic Church, where the Pope spent two hours in 2015

Pope Francis mingles with children inside a paddocked space set aside for Sunday school children at St Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Kangemi, Nairobi on November 27, 2015. [File/Standard]

A letter and a bad road were all it took for the St Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Kangemi, Nairobi, to host the late Pope Francis on November 27, 2015.

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he was the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

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