{"id":26255,"date":"2024-12-25T16:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=26255"},"modified":"2024-12-25T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T22:12:40","slug":"merry-christmas-2024-from-the-legion-of-mary-church-in-kenya-nairobi-or-mombasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/merry-christmas-2024-from-the-legion-of-mary-church-in-kenya-nairobi-or-mombasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas (2024) from the Legion of Mary Church in Kenya (Nairobi&#8230; or Mombasa?)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26256 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-1.jpeg\" alt=\"merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya\" width=\"1481\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-1.jpeg 1481w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-1-300x175.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-1-768x448.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1481px) 100vw, 1481px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Legio Maria African Mission Church<\/strong>, Christmas Eve vigil mass in the Fort Jesus area of Nairobi, Kenya, December 24th, 2024.\u00a0 <u>Image credit:<\/u> Thomas Mukoya\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-2.jpeg\" alt=\"merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya\" width=\"1481\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-2.jpeg 1481w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-2-300x175.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-2-768x448.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1481px) 100vw, 1481px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Legio Maria African Mission Church<\/strong>, Christmas Eve vigil mass in the Fort Jesus area of Nairobi, Kenya, December 24th, 2024.\u00a0 <u>Image credit:<\/u> Thomas Mukoya\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-3.jpeg\" alt=\"merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya\" width=\"1481\" height=\"864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-3.jpeg 1481w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-3-300x175.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/merry-christmas-2024-from-kenya-3-768x448.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1481px) 100vw, 1481px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Legio Maria African Mission Church<\/strong>, Christmas Eve vigil mass in the Fort Jesus area of Nairobi, Kenya, December 24th, 2024.\u00a0 <u>Image credit:<\/u> Thomas Mukoya\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Legio Maria is Latin for <em>Legion of Mary<\/em>.\u00a0 Apparently this Church separated from the Catholic Church in 1963.\u00a0 \u00a0You can read more about the Church at the <a href=\"https:\/\/legionmaria.com\/\">Legio Maria African Mission Church website<\/a> and at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legio_Maria\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The above featured pictures were purportedly taken at one of their Churches located in the <strong><em>Fort Jesus area<\/em><\/strong> of <strong>Nairobi<\/strong>, Kenya.\u00a0 \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t find (not implying that it doesn&#8217;t exist) an area of town called Fort Jesus in Nairobi but there is a more well-known <strong><em>Fort Jesus<\/em><\/strong> in <strong>Mombasa<\/strong>, Kenya:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fort-jesus-mombasa-church-legion-of-mary-obama.jpg\" alt=\"fort-jesus-mombasa-church-legion-of-mary-obama\" width=\"894\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fort-jesus-mombasa-church-legion-of-mary-obama.jpg 894w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fort-jesus-mombasa-church-legion-of-mary-obama-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/fort-jesus-mombasa-church-legion-of-mary-obama-768x478.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 894px) 100vw, 894px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fort_Jesus_at_the_Mombasa_Island.jpg\" alt=\"Fort-Jesus-Mombasa\" width=\"720\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fort_Jesus_at_the_Mombasa_Island.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Fort_Jesus_at_the_Mombasa_Island-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Fort Jesus, Mombasa at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mombasa-city.com\/history_of_Fort_jesus.htm\">Mombasa-City.com<\/a> and at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Jesus\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please exercise your free speech in the comments section below. There are no stipulations of political correctness on this blog. Speak your mind, give us your thoughts, both objective and subjective. Share your ideas, hunches, inklings or your expertise. Please provide recommendation and corrections if you spot errors in fact within the blog report. Lastly, remember that posting a comment is much like casting a vote, so please do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legio Maria African Mission Church, Christmas Eve vigil mass in the Fort Jesus area of Nairobi, Kenya, December 24th, 2024.\u00a0 Image credit: Thomas Mukoya\/Reuters Legio Maria African Mission Church, Christmas Eve vigil mass in the Fort Jesus area of Nairobi, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/merry-christmas-2024-from-the-legion-of-mary-church-in-kenya-nairobi-or-mombasa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4743,4754,5560,6482,6481,6538,6539,6495,6541,4667,6521,6522],"tags":[6508,826,6546,4868,6550,6549,6545,6040,6064,6542,6543,6552,6548,6551,6547,6553,6544,6554],"class_list":["post-26255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kenyabornobama","category-kenyanbornobama","category-barack-obama","category-barack-obama-birther-2024","category-birther-2024","category-kenya","category-kenya-2024","category-obama-birther-2024","category-obama-birther-2025","category-obama-born-in-kenya","category-trump-2024","category-trump-2025","tag-barack-obama-birther-2024","tag-barack-obama-kenya","tag-barack-obama-kenya-christian-church","tag-catholic-church","tag-catholic-church-africa","tag-catholic-church-kenya","tag-christian-church","tag-christianity","tag-christians","tag-christmas-kenya","tag-christmas-kenya-obama","tag-fort-jesus-area-nairobi-kenya","tag-fort-jesus-area-of-nairobi-kenya","tag-fort-jesus-mombasa-kenya","tag-legio-maria-african-mission-church","tag-legion-of-mary-church-in-kenya","tag-obama-christmas-2024","tag-thomas-mukoya-reuters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26262,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26255\/revisions\/26262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}