adminNairobi — Hundreds of prostitutes have flocked to a Kenyan town ahead of the beatification ceremony of an Italian nun, a key step towards sainthood, a report said yesterday. “Who doesn’t need body gratification? By the way, even Christians need sex,” one woman told The Star newspaper, in the central Kenyan town of Nyeri. “It’s our turn to eat,” she said, using a popular Kenyan idiom meaning to make money. “We are waiting for those international visitors.”
Tens of thousands are expected to attend the Roman Catholic beatification ceremony on May 23 in Nyeri, a town about 150km north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
Irene Stefani, who died in Kenya of the plague in 1930, was an Italian member of the Consolata Missionary Sisters, helped the wounded in Kenya and Tanzania during World War I.
A trained nurse, she was much loved by the people of the Nyeri district.
The newspaper said it had carried out a “spot check” and found that “hotels are almost fully booked by the women.” — AFP
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