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Being church in post-genocide rwanda

Kubai,Anne
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Kubai,Anne
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reconciliation
religion
genocide
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Political ethics
Cultural ethics
Religious ethics
Community ethics
Ethics of political systems
Ethics of law
Rights based legal ethics
Peace ethics
Governance and ethics
Development ethics
Spirituality and ethics
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Peace-Building and Conflict Resolution
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Is there any hope for the Christians of Rwanda? I believe the answers are in the affirmative, in spite of the enormous challenges that remain, says Anne Kubai, author of this paper and Research Director at the Life & Peace Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. The Church, as part of its spiritual mandate, is called to work for peace, justice and true reconciliation, and thereby assist in creating an inclusive society where people can live together in dignity. The genocide in Rwanda is said to be the marking event in the history of the country. As a result, it is impossible to speak of the Rwandan church without foregrounding the thousands of women and men who were subject to inhuman atrocities during the slaughter of 1994, in which over one million people perished. The failure of the Rwandan Church to confront these crucial issues, and particularly how it became pathologically overwhelmed by a message of hatred and death, thus facilitating ethnic genocide, has never been adequately answered. The same Church, which failed in its prophetic and pastoral role, and stands accused of complicity in the wanton slaughter of its flock, today faces the enormous challenge of fostering forgiveness and reconciliation.
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2005
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9187748754
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