Kenya: Reconciling Women's Rights and Catholic Faith in Kenya

26 November 2015

A sea of umbrellas rose up the jagged hillside, sheltering thousands of Kenyans who had braved torrential rain to hear Pope Francis address the nation on the first stop of his Africa tour.

Among his first words were a counsel not to "hurt or demean women" or to "threaten the life of the innocent unborn". Together, they struck at the heart of what some Kenyan women's rights activists believe to be a contradiction with sometimes deadly consequences in this country where more than 20 percent of the population is Catholic and the leading cause of maternal deaths is unsafe abortion, according to the Kenyan Ministry of Health.

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