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If you thought that the Holocaust could not happen again, think again. In 1994, in Rwanda, about 800,000 people were massacred in a genocide carried out at least in part by bishops, priests, and nuns of the Roman Catholic and other Churches, who directly helped murder people. The Church, as always, continues to shelter these accused members of the Church, and to hamper efforts to bring them to justice.
The Holocaust of Hitler occurred in the most Christian country of Europe. The genocide in Rwanda occurred in the most Christian country of Africa. About 93% of the people are Christian, of which about 63% are Roman Catholic. Coincidence? I think not! The sanctity of human life may be of paramount value to an atheist. To a Christian, the sanctity of human life is secondary to faith in an imaginary God. Is that not why the religionists worship their martyrs -- the very people who were willing to put human life (their own) forward to be desecrated, in favor of their so-called higher value: belief in God? It is for that reason that I find it almost obscene that we have so many cities named after saints. I would no more like to live in a city named Saint Paul than I would like to live in one named Saint Hitler!
You might argue that atheists have an easy time of it, in that they do not have a powerful and rich organization like the Vatican which can shield the murderers, rapists, and pedophiles in its ranks, by either the use of powerful legal and financial resources, or by just transferring the perpetrators to another parish down the road. What the poor atheist would probably do, instead is to phone 911, and get some secular help in the form of police and care-givers. Have you ever heard of a Bishop phoning the police to report that a priest was suspected of pedophilia? Why not?
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Prometheus Books: http://www.prometheusbooks.com/site/groups/religion.html Catalog of its published books re free thought, atheism, agnosticism, church-state separation, and the dangers to society and to individual mental health posed by most religions. Titles (with summary) relevant to current abuses and threats posed by religions include the following: Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister; __ Church and State in Canada; __ Church Schools and Public Money: The Politics of Parochiaid; __ Evangelicals at the Ballot Box; __ Religious Liberty and State Constitutions; __ The Case Against School Vouchers; __ The Hallelujah Revolution: The Rise of the New Christians; __ Visions of Reality: What Fundamentalist Schools Teach.
Deadly Doctrine: Health, Illness, and Christian God-Talk by Wendell W. Watters, M.D.. . . Christianity's influence actually militates against human development . . .
Disciples of Destruction: The Religious Origins of War and Terrorism
Prometheus Books: http://www.prometheusbooks.com/site/catalog/religion2.html Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister, by David A. Reed. "More kids are dying right now in obedience to the Jehovah's Witness ban on blood transfusions than perished in the fire at Waco, Texas," says former Witness elder David A. Reed. " How can a major sect with headquarters in New York City and twelve million attending its religious services worldwide quietly lead victims to early deaths without public outcry?" . . . on a deadly cult that secretly instructs members to kidnap children from hospital beds and teaches children to resist doctors violently and give false testimony in court . . .
Prometheus Books: http://www.prometheusbooks.com/site/catalog/religion3.html Church and State in Canada, by Albert J. Menendez. . . . Religion's impact on education, law, and politics is the primary focus . . . Albert J. Menendez (Gaithersburg, MD) is associate director of Americans for Religious Liberty, and author of Religious Liberty and State Constitutions, and Visions of Reality: What Fundamentalist Schools Teach. ". . . it is instructive to see ourselves as others see us . . . we might well use the book as an occasion to reflect on our record." Toronto Globe and Mail.
Prometheus Books: http://www.prometheusbooks.com/site/catalog/religion4.html Church Schools and Public Money: The Politics of Parochiaid by Edd Doerr and Albert J. Menendez. . . . a searing indictment of the resurgent drive to support sectarian schools wtih tax dollars. Concentrating on the last five decades, during which the parochiaid lobbies have gained in influence, the authors reveal that lawmakers in forty-two states have increased tax support of church schools to more than $1 billion per year - despite the fact that voters have rejected such aid in seventeen of eighteen statewide referenda held since 1966. . . . an examination of the biases taught by sectarian schools, particularly those operated by Protestant fundamentalists. The authors skillfully summarize the case against parochiaid and uncover the faulty reasoning of its advocates. According to Doerr and Menendez, the sectarian special interests and their political allies threaten democratic public education and the constitutional separation of church and state.
Amazon.com buying info The Manufacture of Madness A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815604610/ref%3Dnosim/dominantsystems/107-9279554-5101327 The Manufacture of Madness : A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement by Thomas S. Szasz. .In this seminal work, Dr. Szasz examines the similarities between the Inquisition and institutional psychiatry. His purpose is to show "that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to which it leads have the same moral implications and political consequences as had the belief in witchcraft and the social actions to which it led."
Rwanda genocide of a people, by a people: http://www.chron.com/cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/books/9899/10/18/rwanda.html Rwanda genocide: of a people, by a people. By TONY FREEMANTLE. WE WISH TO INFORM YOU THAT TOMORROW WE WILL BE KILLED WITH OUR FAMILIES: Stories From Rwanda. By Philip Gourevitch. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.
THE astounding thing, or perhaps one of the many astounding things, about what happened in 1994 in the tiny central African country of Rwanda was that up to a million people were slaughtered right under the noses of the community of nations that 50 years ago solemnly, and with steely resolve, promised genocide would not happen again.
For months before it occurred, the country's Hutu majority had been preparing for the extermination of the minority Tutsis and their sympathizers. After all, the sheer task of killing that many people in a mere 100 days required extensive preparations.
Local communities organized killing squads called interahamwes. The Hutu-controlled media offered up a steady stream of invective, often bluntly calling for the death of the Tutsi "cockroaches." Lists of prominent targets that needed elimination were drawn up. And so on.
The world knew what was about to happen, and instead of embarking on a program of diplomatic and military engagement, it disengaged. . . .
The people speak the same language, worship the same gods and live together on the same hills with no territorial distinction between Hutu and Tutsi.
He explores the despicable influence of colonial patronage, particularly the imposition of archaic 19th-century racial theories of John Hanning Speke that drove a wedge between the Hutus and the Tutsis, making the former "inferior," for the first time, to the other and leading to the establishment of "Hutu Power" as an entrenched ideology. . . .
The president of the country at the time was Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, and it was his death in a plane crash in April 1994 that unleashed the killing. Though somewhat moderate, Habyarimana was a front for the real architects of Hutu Power, among whom his wife, Agathe Kanzinga, was prominent.
Jean Paul Akayesu, the mayor of the Taba Commune who recently was found guilty of genocidal crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, was another leader. So was Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a Seventh-day Adventist minister who now lives in Laredo and is fighting extradition to the international court. . . .
hundreds of thousands of Rwandans went on a rampage to kill hundreds of thousands of their neighbors in 100 days. Within hours of the president's death, squads of killers swung into action, rounding up Tutsis, in many cases sending them to community centers, churches and hospitals, where they were butchered. . . .
Among the myriad things about this horror that sicken one to the soul is the complicity of men and women of the cloth, the earthly representatives of God to whom terrified Tutsis turned for help.
When the slaughter began, people gathered by the thousands at the local churches for shelter, only to find the priests and pastors and nuns aiding the interahamwes and orchestrating the massacres.
Such a one was Ntakirutimana, president of the Seventh-day Adventist church, who reportedly encouraged Tutsis, including pastors in his own church, to gather at a church in Mugonero and who then oversaw their deaths. A few days before they died, the refugees learned that their execution was scheduled for the morning of April 16, 1994. It is in a letter from one of the pastors to Ntakirutimana informing him of this dire news that Gourevitch found the title to his book.
Ntakirutimana's response, Gourevitch writes, was, "You must be eliminated. God no longer wants you."
Church Moves To Wash off 1994's Stains: http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/aug/rwanda.html RWANDA-HUMAN RIGHTS: Church Moves To Wash off 1994's Stains. By Moyiga Nduru. NAIROBI, Aug 28 (IPS) - The church in Rwanda is fighting to wash off the stigma it suffered for turning a blind eye to the 1994 genocide in which up to one million people were slaughtered in the predominantly Christian nation.
Over 90 Percent of Rwanda's population is Christian -- about 63 percent Catholic, 19 percent Protestant and eight percent Adventist.
''In fact, one can argue that the majority of the genocide perpetrators were Christians,'' said Ven S'everin Ndayizeye, who is the general secretary of the Nairobi-based Council of the Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA).
''In fact, since 1994 we didn't have a prominent clergyman who stood up to denounce the genocide. Now, Bishop Kolini has repented all what the church did,''said Ndayizeye.
Religion has always played a leading role in Rwanda's history. 'The International Response to Conflict and Genocide: Lessons from the Rwanda Experience', a study published by the Danish government last year, noted that the Catholic church worked hand-in-hand with the German and Belgian authorities during colonisation.
After independence there was a remarkably high degree of political intertwining between the Church and the state, the study noted. In fact, in the mid-1970s, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kigali, Vincent Nsengiyumwa, became a member of the Central Committee of the ruling Mouvement Republicain pour le developpement et la Democratie (MRND). He was also the official confessor to President Habyarimana's wife and close to the 'akazu', an inner circle of Hutu nationalists.
U N I T E D N A T I O N S Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa: http://www.asyl.net/Magazin/Docs/Docs09/L5795CEA.TXT
RWANDA: Belgium should not be "haven" for genocide suspects -- report. The London-based 'African Rights' organisation has accused members of the Belgian Catholic clergy of trying to interfere with the process of justice regarding the 1994 Rwanda genocide. In a new report, 'African Rights' recalls the case of two Rwandan nuns implicated in the genocide, who fled to Belgium, and have been "shielded from prosecution" by some Belgian priests and nuns. The two - Sister Gertrude Mukangango and Sister Julienne Kizito -- are accused of instigating killings at the monastery of Sovu, in Butare prefecture and of assisting militia forces. "It is now almost five years since the accusations were first made public," the report stated. "With the strength of the evidence now available about the killings in Sovu, it is inconceivable that the nuns could continue to evade trial." The report said the leader of the Sovu militia, Warrant Officer Emmanuel Rekeraho -- now imprisoned in Rwanda -- had given a signed frank and detailed testimony "admitting his own role in the genocide and confirming that the two Sisters were deeply involved". The report also stressed that in the light of this case, "it is important to make certain that Belgium is not now and never again shall be a haven for genocide suspects".
News: http://www.christusrex.org/www1/news/3-96/es3-26-96.html News from the Holy See. Christus Rex Information Service
Last week the Pope responded indirectly for the first time to accusations that priests and nuns took part in Rwanda's genocide, urging Catholics involved in killings to answer for their actions.
But the Catholic Church, the biggest denomination in Rwanda, has also faced accusations from witnesses and the Kigali government that some of its priests and nuns engaged or cooperated in the killings.
In a message to the people of Rwanda, released by the Vatican last Wednesday, the Pope said the Roman Catholic Church as a whole could not be held responsible for crimes committed by its individual members.
It is not surprising that the Vatican never apologizes for anything. Even in its so-called apology for its despicable lack of even the slightest protest against Hitler and the Holocaust, the Church apologized for the failures of some of its members -- not for the obvious failure of the Church as an organization. Yet, it is always ready to claim that the Church benefits people. What an abject and dishonest dereliction of morality on the part of the Church!
African Rights: http://www.unimondo.org/AfricanRights/html/pope_en.html An Open Letter to His Holiness, Pope John Paul II. 13 may 1998.
Your Holiness
I am writing on behalf of African Rights, a human rights organisation based in London which has been investigating the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and its aftermath, for four years. In many of our publications, we have tried to provide a forum for survivors and witnesses to speak openly of their experiences of the genocide, and to name the perpetrators. . . .
Unfortunately, the content of your appeal for clemency lacked sensitivity to the suffering experienced by the survivors of the genocide and has caused them immense pain. These are the very people who are most in need of solace and spiritual sustenance. Their response to your appeal demonstrates just how weak the moral authority of the Papacy has become among survivors. We are writing you this letter in the hope of encouraging the Catholic Church, both in Rwanda and abroad, to reflect upon the reasons for this. . . .
However, despite strong evidence against them, not one of the accused clergy has shown such courage -- there has been no attempt on the part of the Church to ensure that they do so. On the contrary, in February 1997, the Papal Nuncio in Rwanda made it clear that they would enjoy the support of the Church. Every individual accused of a crime has the right to be defended. But the Papal Nuncio, in asking fellow-priests to find witnesses to testify on their behalf, without first seeking to establish the substance of the accusations against them, took a stand which is morally untenable and politically suspect. Members of the Church, both in Rwanda and abroad, continue to exert intense pressure on priests and nuns to whitewash the crimes of those accused of genocide. Those who refuse to comply have been intimidated, as happened recently after the arrest of two Penitent nuns in Cyangugu, and in Butare when the Papal Nuncio held a tense meeting with the clergy of that diocese. The Catholic Church cannot play a constructive role in Rwanda as long as it continues to provide sanctuary to genocide suspects. . . .
The Catholic Church now counts among its members at least three dozen genocide suspects. Some of them are already under arrest and due to come before the courts, but without the full co-operation and support of the Church, the process of bringing them to justice is unnecessarily lengthy, fraught with tension and has been a source of instability within Rwandese society. Time and again in the course of investigating massacres all over Rwanda, we have encountered survivors and witnesses who were horrified that God’s own servants could have been a part of this betrayal of humanity. Many of them are Catholics who have since lost faith in God, or in Catholicism. . . .
The accusations against Catholic clergy vary in their strength and consistency -- some relate to attitudes, but all too many suggest direct complicity in the genocide, including murder.
Fr. Hormisdas Nsengiyumva, the rector of Christ Roi College in Nyanza, Butare, was, according to survivors and many residents of Nyanza, one of the three men who organised and implemented the genocide there. He helped to mobilise the militia in Nyanza — which included his own brother — providing them with weapons, transport and encouragement, and accompanying them during their killing sprees. He himself was often armed. Many Tutsis living near the college were murdered at the roadblock he set up at the entrance of the college, manned by his militiamen. He is widely accused of being behind the murder of four Tutsi priests killed in Nyanza — . . . —telling the militiamen that they were hiding in a nearby orphanage. He refused to have them buried and allowed their bodies to be eaten by dogs and crows. The nearby huge Parish of Nyanza is one of the few churches in Rwanda where Tutsis did not seek sanctuary, because, survivors say, they feared Fr. Nsengiyumva would seek to have them killed. He was evacuated to Italy and is now working as a priest in Cameroon.
Fr. Athanase Seromba is accused of having paid to have 2,000 Tutsis crushed to death with Caterpillar bulldozers at the Parish of Nyange in Kibuye, and of having personally supervised the massacre. He is now resident in Italy where he is studying. . . .
In less than two years, it will be a century since the first Catholic missionaries arrived in Rwanda to spread the Gospel. It is a moment to pause and reflect on the past and the future. The genocide was the sign that the Church’s teachings had not borne fruit. Christians who slay other Christians before the altar, bishops who remain silent in the face of genocide and fail to protect their own clergy, priests who participate in the murder of their parishioners and nuns who hand people over to be killed cannot leave the Church indifferent. The Catholic Church in Rwanda today is a house divided, rent apart by the genocide and devoid of moral authority. Only the decision to scrutinise the Church’s role in the genocide and to respond in an open manner to the accusations levelled against its servants can redeem it in the eyes of the victims of that genocide. We do not underestimate the difficulties; we realise the decision is a difficult one and the process long and painful. But it is the only way forward. We look to you, your Holiness, to initiate and guide this process of reflection, confession and self-examination.
RICK HALPERIN - DEATH PENALTY NEWS, 1 April, 2000 - Present: http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/rick-halperin/apr00/0131.html death penalty news----worldwide. 4-24-00 -- RWANDA: The trial of a Roman Catholic bishop charged with genocide was adjourned for 2 weeks on Monday to give the defendant a chance to get medical supervision for his high blood pressure. . . .
Misago is the most prominent of more than 20 nuns and priests accused of participating in the genocide and the 1st Roman Catholic bishop to face that charge. 2 priests were convicted and sentenced to death last year.
The government believes the Catholic church was complicit, through its silence, in the 90-day slaughter. Most of the victims were hacked to death in churches, where they had sought refuge, often with complicity of priests and nuns.
The Vatican is the only church that has failed to apologize for its role in the genocide. It has said only individuals can be held responsible. . . .
Rwanda is the most Catholic nation in Africa, with 62 % of the country's pre-genocide population identifying with the faith.
Rwanda's Genocide Emerges: http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/evennuns.html Associated Press KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- Amid the 10,000 inmates packed into the hellhole of Kigali's sweltering central prison are 342 women who pass their days washing clothes and nursing babies. Like the men, each awaits judgment for genocide.
Women were implicated at almost every level, according to Rwandan officials and a report by the London-based group Africa Rights -- from Cabinet ministers and regional administrators to professionals, teachers, nurses and housewives. Even [Roman Catholic] nuns.
The officials say the role of women as killers and "cheerleaders" for murder was unprecedented in any other genocide this century.
"The difference between our genocide and the German one was that theirs was carried out by the government against the people," said former Justice Minister Alphonse-Marie Nkubito. "Here, it was the government that mobilized the people to kill each other."
Among the prominent Hutu women who stand accused:
-- Valerie Bemeriki, a radio broadcaster, called upon Hutus to "fill up" Tutsi graves and urged listeners to phone in the locations of Tutsi hideouts.
-- [Roman Catholic] Nuns Gertrude Mukangano and Justine Kizito, now sheltered by the Benedictine order in Belgium, called Tutsis who sought refuge "dirt" and allegedly supplied gasoline to burn some alive, including the immediate families of Tutsi nuns.
Rwanda Aftermath of Genocide: http://www.tbwt.com/interaction/rwanda/html/4.htm During the first days of the genocide in 1994, the Rev. Modeste Mungwarareba hid in the sacristy of his Roman Catholic church in Butare, surviving on prayer and communion wafers.He . . . moved stealthily at night to avoid the marauding bands of Hutu militiamen who were hunting for Tutsis like him. One evening . . . militiamen broke down a door and killed several nuns and Tutsi refugees.. . .
Mungwarareba recognized a voice
among the killers -- a Hutu priest from his parish who helped the
militia by identifying Tutsis.
"To me, it was a mystery," Father Mungwarareba said.
"I could not understand how that priest could
join the spirit of the militia."
It wasn't only members of the Catholic Church who were involved in the 1994 genocide. Clergy from almost every denomination have been implicated.
But 60 percent of the nation identifies itself as Catholic; Rwanda is the most Catholic of all African countries. And the church was closely tied to the Hutu government, which had characterized minority Tutsis as "invaders" since Hutus seized power in 1959.
Why Priests Jostle For Manna From Museveni: http://www.africanews.com/obbo/article374.html From The East African, Mar. 20-26, 2000. By Charles Onyango-Obbo. . . .
Of course since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in which some nuns and priests lured Tutsi into the churches where they were killed, we know that convents do not hide only treasures. They harbour evil too.
But even in Uganda where priests, nuns and Islamic mullahs haven't wielded machetes, the churches and mosques seem to be in a moral crisis.
No where has that crisis been more pronounced than over the issue of the ban on free political party activities, and the June/July referendum on whether or to return to multiparty government or remain with the present quasi-one-party "Movement system". The Movement government of Yoweri Museveni is set to win, in part because the mainstream parties have boycotted the referendum, and also because its present monopoly of power and unlimited access to state resources makes it unbeatable.
The head of the Ugandan Anglican church supports the referendum and is in Museveni's political corner. Some of his supporters and clerics, particularly those sympathetic to the Uganda People's Congress which is campaigning for a boycott, are against it.
The Archbishop of the Catholic church, Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala, and several of his archbishops have flip flopped . . .
In the good old days when the Christian churches and organisations abroad sent a lot of aid, and rich parishioners at home gave generously to churches, the priests and bishops were not needy and therefore were more independent-minded.
Today foreign church bodies are no longer generous with their grants. And the crushing poverty has left most parishioners too poor to give money to the churches.
This has increased the influence of the government over the mainstream churches because its the one with the cash. If you see a bishop or sheikh driving a new Shs 60m ($40,000) Pajero in Uganda today, you know it was donated to him by President Museveni. Many bishops and priests are falling over themselves to please the president and get a car or money.
In exchange they deliver their flock to vote for the president's side. A critic of the religious leaders argues that if it wasn't for their opportunism, the JCC could easily have found a solution which pleases both their members who oppose, and those who support the referendum. This would be for it to simply affirm the peoples right to freedom of association, and their right to make their own political choices at the same time.
That might be a simple position to take for a priest who has food on his plate; but would be tough for the one who's behind on the rent. The unhappy reality for many Christians in Uganda is that they are headed for a future where their bishops will no longer look to Rome or Canterbury for leadership, but to State House for a cue from the president.
Caesar is winning.
Rwandan Genocidal Clergy: http://www.thelinkup.com/rwanda.html Hearts of Darkness. Rwandan Genocidal Clergy Given Sanctuary by Church.
. . . The priest's real name is Athanase Seromba and he is one of a number of clergy believed to have been involved in the Rwandan genocide who is being harbored by the Catholic Church. . . .
Rwanda is a predominantly Christian nation where three out of four people call themselves Catholic after 100 years of intense exposure to white missionaries. In 1994, the country was turned into a vast graveyard. In 100 days, 800,000 men and women, babies and old people were butchered as marauding bands of Hutu militia hunted and killed every member of the Tutsi minority they could find.
At Nyange, Seromba's parish, thousands of Tutsi fled to the church and Seromba, who had been the priest for about six months, for refuge. Instead, they were slaughtered.
Witnesses said Seromba, a Hutu, sided with the campaign to exterminate the Tutsi to an extreme extent. He urged on the militia attacking the church and, in a climax of unimaginable horror, ordered it to be bulldozed, crushing those inside.
Anastase Kinamubanzi, one of the bulldozer drivers, balked at demolishing "God's house." But Seromba told him: "There are many Christians in foreign lands. This church will be rebuilt in three days". Witnesses are quoted as saying he paid the drivers and locals to bury the bodies. Between 2,000 and 2,500 were killed. . . .
Seromba sipped beer on his balcony and took pot shots at the refugees in the steeple, chatting with the burgomaster as to who was the better shot. Even before that incident, Serumba had allegedly refused help to Tutsis in the first days of the genocide, even turning down requests to buy food on their behalf with their own money. . . .
. . . There is no doubt that the Catholic Church abetted the tragedy. It was the single most powerful institution in the country after the government and its clergy were not exempt from the country's pervasive racism.
The church's failure to foster reconciliation remains a hot issue in Rwanda. A bishop is on trial now for genocide, a first in the history of the Catholic church. The Vatican says the trial is an attack on the church. It has helped to organize his legal defence.
In the same way, it also looked after two priests who were Seromba's subordinates at Nyange during the massacre. The Rwandan courts sentenced them to death last year. Contrast this with the Church's protection of Seromba, who remains abroad and free.
Seromba has been in Italy for the past two years with the connivance of his home bishop back in Rwanda who sanctioned his overseas posting. However, the church's protection of Seromba is about to be blown apart. A devastating dossier on his willing participation in the genocide, based on testimonies gathered in Rwanda by survivors, witnesses and accomplices, will be published as a charge-sheet against him by African Rights, the London-based human rights organization. African Rights has been investigating the genocide and its aftermath over the past five years and regards Seromba as one of its worst cases. . . .
Nuns involved also . . .
UNITED NATIONS - In a scathing indictment of the failure to halt the worst genocide since World War II, an international panel has blamed the UN Security Council, the United States, France and the Roman Catholic Church for failing to prevent the slaughter of more than 500,000 Rwandans. . . .
Meanwhile, the trial of Bp. Augustin Misago, 56, the highest-ranking member of over 20 priests and nuns charged in the massacre, was to reach a verdict
In mid-May, Pope John Paul II, after hearing the prosecution's request for a death sentence, sent Misago a telegram of solidarity, saying that he was praying for Misago's release.
[The Catholic Church obviously has no sense of justice!]
ChristianityToday.com - Christianity Today Magazine - Influence of Roman Catholic Church in Acquittal of Rwandan Bishop Debated: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/125/23.0.html
Burlington: http://www.genocide.mq.edu.au/burlingt.htm rwanda-BURUNDI. 1959 -- 1994. by Emma Burlington. Emma Burlington is a BA student at Macquarie University and co-winner of the inaugural Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies Leo Kuper Memorial Prize for outstanding achievement in POL340 - The Politics of Genocide. The ideological basis for the genocide in Rwanda stems from a combination of reinvigorated nationalism, coupled with ethnic exclusivism, to use genocide as an instrument of political change. . . . An excellent essay.
Priests Dying of AIDS "Roman Catholic priests in the United States are dying from AIDS-related illnesses at a rate four times higher than the general population and the cause is often concealed on their death certificates, The Kansas City Star reported Sunday." (AP 1/30/00)
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