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Jesuit priest: Stories of Rwandan women ‘scarred by genocide’ must be told

April 20, 2024 Catholic News Agency 5

Father Marcel Uwineza. / Credit: Sister Olga Massango/Daughters of St. Paul

ACI Africa, Apr 20, 2024 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Women who were sexually assaulted, infected with diseases, and forced into exile, among other brutalities during the 1994 gen… […]

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Christian leaders in Africa mark 30 years since Rwandan genocide

April 17, 2024 Catholic News Agency 0

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ACI Africa, Apr 17, 2024 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Members of the Africa Christian Professionals Forum (ACPF) have expressed their solidarity with the people of Rwanda as the landlocked central… […]

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Police arrest suspected mastermind of massacre at Rwandan Catholic parish in 1994 genocide

June 1, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

Fulgence Kayishema, a former Rwandan police officer suspected to have ordered the killing of at least 2,000 Tutsis who were seeking refuge at St. Paul’s Nyange Catholic Parish during the 1994 genocide, was arrested May 24, 2023. / Credit: Courte… […]

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Rwandan priest forgives his family’s killer: ‘We shared a drink and we were shedding tears’

January 17, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Fr. Marcel Uwineza was only 14 years old when he witnessed the painful experience of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He saw his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister murdered during the civil war between the Tutsis and Hutus. / Sister Olga Mas… […]

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Archbishop Henryk Hoser, papal envoy to Medjugorje, has died

August 14, 2021 Catholic News Agency 0

The late Archbishop Henryk Hoser. / Wikimedia Commons/CNA.

Rome Newsroom, Aug 14, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Archbishop Henryk Hoser, the apostolic visitor of Medjugorje, has died at the age of 78.The archbishop died in a hospital in Warsaw on Aug. … […]

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Meet Our Lady of Kibeho: The only approved Marian apparition in Africa

July 19, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Kibeho

Washington D.C., Jul 19, 2021 / 13:20 pm (CNA).
There is only one Vatican-approved Marian apparition that took place on the African continent: Our Lady of Kibeho.From 1981 to 1989, there were reports of Marian app… […]

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Rwanda celebrates jubilee year with 63 ordinations

July 31, 2017 Allen Ottaro 3

This year the Catholic Church in Rwanda is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the ordination of the country’s first local clergy. As they mark this anniversary, the Diocese of Kabgayi recently hosted the ordination to […]

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