Finding Hope in Forgiveness

Published April 28, 2004

(NYAMATA) As we enter the church, we pass by a small room where I am told that a group of school children were ordered to hide, only to be later shot at and hacked to death with machetes. The room is now filled with the clothing that was removed from their bodies. In the corner, I spot a small pile of bloodstained clothing, the colourful African prints that you see men and women wearing all over sub-saharan Africa....