Rwandan genocide

Congolese faith leaders step up efforts to promote dialogue among warring groups

By Tonny Onyulo — November 7, 2023
GOMA, Congo (RNS) — Church leaders are conducting weekly workshops to train traditional and church leadership in how to promote peace in their communities.

McCarrick scandal shows why popes, like John Paul, should not be canonized

By Thomas Reese — November 17, 2020
(RNS) — The fact that John Paul advanced McCarrick in the hierarchy despite warning he received from Vatican officials and Cardinal John O’Connor makes some wonder why he should be considered a saint. Canonizing popes is more about ecclesial politics than sanctity.

Rwanda’s genocide at 25: ‘Each soul decides to serve life or death’

By Denise Uwimana — April 29, 2019
(RNS) — We who lived faced a harsher task. How hard it has been, through grueling years: to overcome the loss, battle to forgive, and then bring healing to others — yes, even to killers.

After shuttering 700 churches, Rwanda proposes stricter clergy guidelines

By Fredrick Nzwili — July 11, 2018
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — After closing more than 700 churches and some mosques in March, Rwandan government officials have moved to institute guidelines for how faith groups operate in the majority-Christian East African country.

The Greatest of These Is Love

By Jana Riess — August 23, 2013
I learned from Tracy Kidder's book that a Burundian refugee was an undergraduate at Columbia at precisely the same time I was doing my graduate work there, though we never met. What if we had, I wonder? Would I have gone the extra mile?
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