The Bishop screamed , the church was vibrant in Rwanda, yet the nation descended into a bloody civil war.” I still remember the Bishop’s voice on an evening in 1995 at our church conference, one year after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, an atrocity that claimed millions of lives. The question behind his [ ]
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