Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Another Rwandan Story of Hope
On cnn.com.
Today Rwanda is an African success story. It has one of the fastest economic growth rates in the region, and one of the lowest crime rates, and lowest rate of HIV-AIDS. About one third of Rwanda’s cabinet are female ministers and 48 percent of parliamentarians are women — the highest anywhere in the world, [...]
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Left to Tell: Jesus’ Miracle
I am going to give away an awesome moment in the true story of Immaculee in Left to Tell, so don’t read more if you want to read the book yourself, but there is one part where, near the end of the 3 months she and 6 other women had been hiding in a tiny [...]
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Rwanda: Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
As I posted about previously, Katie and I have been reading Left to Tell, the story of one woman’s horrific experience in the Rwanda genocide in 1994.
Neighbor slaughtered neighbor; family friends murdered families they once ate dinner with; killers roamed the countryside raping and killing with the endorsement of the Hutu government; it is so [...]