Sister Anna Hadija Ali (born 29 December 1966) is a Kenyan Religious Sister of the Pious Union of the Daughters of Jesus the Good Shepherd. She is perhaps most notable for her claims of direct contact with a reformed Jesus Christ through personal visits between 1987 and 1991.
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Anna Ali was born in 1966 to a Muslim father and a Roman Catholic mother in Kenya, but was not baptized until 1979. She received a limited education, which was further dampened by ill-health, suffering from continual bleeding of her hands and feet. While at school, Ali kept secret her desire to be a religious, later claiming that ill-health usually disallows religious study in Kenya. . Convinced that she could be healed by Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who was a controversial faith healer at the same time he was a ranking prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Ali went to meet him during his visit to Nairobi in 1983. She claims that she was indeed cured through his prayer.
Ali was one of the first women to join the Daughters of Jesus, which was founded by Milingo. She made her profession of vows on 7 September 1991 in the chapel of the monastery of the Visitation Order in Rome, Italy.
At present, she stays at the Bishop's residence of Eldoret, Kenya, where she has shared her mystical experience with other members of the community. She continues experiencing the weekly visits of Jesus and crying blood tears on Wednesday-Thursday nights according to the testimony of diverse witnesses as explained below.
In August 1987, at the residence of Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, Jesus Christ is said to have first appeared to the woman. Ali claimed continual visits, and that on the feast of Corpus Christi, 1988, he appeared in tears of blood and
came with His own light. He was enveloped in light, which was of the same hue of the sky when it is deeply blue. His presence illuminated the whole room. He wore a red tunic (the color of blood), with wide sleeves. He has shining dark hair. He gave me a message and on His instruction I started writing down the messages...The first message was written on 8 September 1987
After this event, more personal visits are said to have followed, in which further divine revelations, (which have been written down, documented, and studied) insist upon the following already occurring in society:
Perhaps one of the most startling pieces of evidence for Ali's claims is that of a photograph allegedly depicting Jesus during one visit. In subsequent revelations, it is said that Jesus gave reasons for making himself visible, including the following:
On 15 February Sister Ali, with Milingo, held a press conference in Rome, in which she recounted her experiences, and showed her photographic evidence. European media reported on the event, including the British tabloid, News of the World. Her claims of these private revelations have yet to be fully endorsed by the Catholic Church.