Bishop Papias Musengamana of the Diocese of Byumba in Northwest Rwanda recently visited the international headquarters of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). He tells the pontifical charity how his diocese recovered from the almost complete absence of priests after the 1994 genocide and speaks about the meaning of pastoral work with families and …
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“Many people are fleeing their villages,” says missionary Fr. Marcelo Oliveira accuses neighbouring countries of instigating the violence taking place in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rebel groups did not even respect a Christmas truce. (Cover photo: in 2017, victims of M23 set camp in Goma outskirts). Christmas was a difficult …
Renovation and extension of a chapel in the Diocese of Byumba The minor seminary in the Diocese of Byumba was founded in 1956 by the Salesian Fathers, who continued to run it until 1962, at which point it was transferred to the diocese. When the seminary was built, the chapel was intended only as a …
How the Church is helping the reintegration of those imprisoned for genocide against the Tutsis. April 7 was declared International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Twenty-nine years after these tragic events (April 7 – July 15, 1994), the prisoners who are still incarcerated are those who received the …
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