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Article: The pattern of this world: a Ugandan Catholic priest, the child of Rwandan parents--one Hutu and the other Tutsi--explains how missionary Christianity helped create the divisions that led to genocide.(Essay)
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- Sojourners Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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If you read Christian mission journals and textbooks from the 1980s, Rwanda is often held up as a model of evangelization in Africa. Nowhere else on the continent was Christianity so well received. Church growth was unprecedented. Seminarians in the United States studied Rwanda, asking how they might use similar strategies elsewhere to share tile good news of Jesus Christ with those living in darkness.
Yet in 1994 an unimaginable darkness descended on Rwanda. The most Christianized Country in Africa became the site of its worst genocide. Christians killed other Christians, often in the same churches where they had worshiped ...