Tutsi Pastor Facilitates "Searing Moments of Truth" to Imprisoned Hutus to Bring Restoration, Peace to Rwanda

by Teresa Neumann : Feb 8, 2009 : Kevin Morrow - Washington Times

"It is a miracle how God does heal people. This is not something you can manufacture, not something money can buy. It's something only God can do...[yet] it is also a process."

(Rwanda, Africa)—The Washington Times has published a profoundly moving article on 62-year-old Tutsi pastor, Bishop John Kabango Rucyahana, who, as chairman of Prison Fellowship Rwanda, is committed to bringing peace and reconciliation by preaching to Hutu inmates at Gitarama imprisoned for their gruesome crimes in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Confess your sins, he tells his former enemies, and forgiveness follows. (Photo by: Kevin Morrow/Special to The Washington Times)

Rucyahan reportedly tells how he first approached his mission, telling the inmates to remember the barbarous cruelties they inflicted. Then, he says, "in about 10 minutes, everyone was crying, sobbing. I said, 'Open your eyes. That which makes you cry is what God wants you to repent of.'"

According to the report, Bishop Rucyahana—whose own family was tortured and murdered during the genocide—has witnessed "thousands of searing moments of truth" since 1997. He has ambitious goals: nothing less than a restored, reunified Rwanda at peace with itself."

Rucyahana acknowledges that many were skeptical of the prison ministry, an affiliate of the Christian prison reform organization Prison Fellowship International. "When God originally called us," he says, "people thought we wouldn't last a week. Yet here we are."

To read in full about the bishop's own incredible journey of faith and healing from hate and bitterness, click on the link provided.

   

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