Kenyan nuns take over hospitals after protracted battle with American priest
St. Mary’s Mission Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, is one of the properties at the center of a years-long power struggle between the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi and the Rev. William Charles Fryda. Photo by Ken Mwirigi/Creative Commons
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – A dispute between an order of nuns and an American priest over control of two major hospitals for the poor has ended with the nuns — backed by a court order and the police — storming one of the hospitals.
