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Bon Pasteur Kolwezi

Winner of 2019 Opus Prize, Kenyan Sr. Catherine Mutindi, Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, ministering in Kolwezi, DR Congo since 2012; at St. Louis University, Missouri, USA on November 21, 2019 / St. Louis University, Missouri, USA

Kenyan-born Nun Winner of 2019 Opus Prize, Receives US$1 Million, “totally humbled”

Nov 23, 2019

Kenyan-born nun ministering in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was on Thursday, November 21 named the winner of this year’s Opus Prize, receiving US1 million at Saint Louis University’s (SLU) Center for Global Citizenship in Missouri, USA.

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