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Sr. Elizabeth Njoki wa Joel poses for a photo outside the ASN Heritage Room. Credit: ACI Africa

From Tradition to Vocation: Veteran Kenyan Sister Reflects on Why African Girls Chose Religious Life

Oct 13, 2025

When Religious Sisters’ Congregations were started in Kenya, parents who were still deeply traditional found it difficult to allow their girls to embrace a way of life that was alien to them. The only vocation that made sense then was marriage; and a young girl was nurtured for it. 

Sr. Elizabeth Joel poses for a photo outside the ASN Heritage Room. Credit: ACI Africa

Inside Catholic Sisters’ Groundbreaking “Heritage Room” – A Dream 40 Years in the Making in Kenya

Oct 8, 2025

Sr. Elizabeth Njoki wa Joel is nostalgic as she shows the various sections of the “Heritage Room”, a space set up by the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi (ASN) in Kenya to preserve the Congregation’s history including documents and artifacts from when it was founded in 1955.

The cover page of the new book titled, “Archbishop John Joseph McCarthy: A Visionary and Dedicated Missionary,” by the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi (ASN). Credit: Assumption Sisters of Nairobi (ASN)

The Times of First Catholic Archbishop of Nairobi Behind Kenya’s Top Church Institutions

May 23, 2021

Little can be found in the public domain about the man behind the most thriving schools, hospitals and Catholic Missions in Kenya’s Archdiocese of Nairobi and the surrounding Dioceses.