Forgiveness Makes You Free: A Dramatic Story of Healing and Reconciliation from the Heart of Rwanda

During the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga tells the dramatic story of how he survived while losing more than eighty of his family members and 45,000 of his parishioners. In 1994 the world looked on in horror and disbelief as Rwanda erupted in violent bloodshed. Militant Hutus rose up to exterminate the Tutsi population and 100 days later, a million bodies littered fields, streets, and even churches.

In Forgiveness Makes You Free, he offers five spiritual principles that can help those traumatized by the past to experience healing and peace in Christ. Each chapter combines Fr. Ubald's story with reflection questions that guide readers along their own path of healing: from fear to faith, from shame to freedom, from isolation to reconciliation, from resentment to mercy, and from conflict to peace.