{"id":37310,"date":"2018-04-16T10:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T10:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cleric-urges-genocide-survivors-perpetrators-on\/"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:35:11","slug":"cleric-urges-genocide-survivors-perpetrators-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cleric-urges-genocide-survivors-perpetrators-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleric urges genocide survivors, perpetrators on forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugirangoga was speaking Sunday in a yearly \u2018Healing Mass\u2019 at Amahoro National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The mass also aimed at commemorating the victims of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n<p>He urged people who committed the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi to seek for pardon and also urged survivors to forgive. He said that a country without forgiveness becomes ashes.<\/p>\n<p>He said that for a person to live peacefully they should forgive and the sinner should seek for forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we don\u2019t ask for forgiveness or forgive from the bottom of our hearts we can\u2019t get eternal life. Seeking for forgiveness and forgiving is the knot of peace,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rugirangoga is also a pact protector. He forgave the killers of his parent and supported their children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth perpetrators and survivors have one another\u2019s keys to heaven; no one should blame another. Whoever opts to seek for pardon should do so and the other side should forgive. We are like being burnt in a house that is open; for us to get out from that house, we need one another,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Mass, the Minister of Sports and Culture, Julienne Uwacu said that Christians really know that the death is not the end of life based on Jesus\u2019 history.<\/p>\n<p>She said that remembrance of Jesus\u2019 death should bring people to honor and remember the death genocide against the Tutsi victims succumbed to.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt would be a shame to see people remembering Jesus\u2019 death which they didn\u2019t witness and forget the death of children, parents among others who died the similar death as Jesus,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>She urged Christians to sacrifice different necessities during the commemoration period. She stressed on role of forgiveness as a weapon towards a secured country.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe country, peace and security we have today are the price of forgiveness. The country has pardoned and put forward the unity of people,\u201d she added.  <\/p>\n<p>The healing Mass was organized by Catholic Church\u2019s Regina Pacis Parish Remera.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24792 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b8719-d19fb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24793 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b8765-bd65f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24794 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b8246-2-66da1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24795 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b8920-2-f9db4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24796 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ubald_yavuze_ko_nta_mahoro_y_utasabye_imbabazi_cyangwa_utazitanze-1b9e7.jpg\" alt=\"Fr Ubald Rugirangoga led the prayer\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24797 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b9325-2-2a785.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr Ubald Rugirangoga of Mushaka Parish in Cyangugu Diocese has urged genocide survivors and perpetrators to uphold forgiveness as a way to heal scars on their hearts and live comfortably with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37310"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37310"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}