Plateau State–born Rev. Sr. Anastasia Kinse, who made history as the first reverend sister from her village, has opened up about the painful circumstances surrounding her dismissal from the Congregation of Mother of Perpetual Help of the Archangels Sisters, after a decade in religious service.
Speaking during an emotional interview on Arise Television’s Prime Time program on Monday, October 13, 2025 from 6:29, Kinse recounted her journey in the convent and the events that led to her removal.
“I joined the Congregation of Mother of Perpetual Help of the Archangels Sisters in 2015. In 2017, I was professed, and in 2023, I was finally professed. After that, I experienced so many challenges,” she said. “I had always confided in my superior general and my bishop, but the issue was that they said I was always complaining — whereas what I sought was clarity,” she added.
According to Kinse, her first complaints were about verbal harassment and intimidation from priests in the diocese. “I wrote to the bishop telling him that this priest was harassing me and making me uncomfortable — not sexually at that point,” she explained.
However, the situation worsened when she was later sexually harassed by another priest. “I reported to my superior. I spoke to her about a priest who I was living in the same compound with in Auchi, Edo State. On a fateful day, I went into his room, and he tried to touch me. I don’t understand if this is a norm, but she told me to just ignore him,” she recounted.
Kinse further revealed that such incidents had occurred before. “That wasn’t the first time. In 2016, my superior told me to go with a priest in his car to his parish for a week, and I refused. Another priest once put his belt on my waist, trying to check the size of the cloth he would get me when I visit him. That broke me and gave me a lot of trauma in 2016 — which they termed madness,” she said. See, More, Here>>>
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