Ilibagiza turned to prayer to survive her ordeal, taking a rosary that her father had given her before she went into hiding. The power of prayer brought her solace and peace and she began to pray throughout her waking hours. The strength that this gave her not only enabled her to survive the ordeal but, later, to come face-to-face with the man who killed her mother and brother and say, “I forgive you.”During her time in hiding Ilibagiza managed to teach herself English using just the Bible and a dictionary. Her book Left to Tell; Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust is a New York Times bestseller and is available in fifteen languages.
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St. Clare Church Presents: Immaculée Ilibagiza on Faith, Hope & Forgiveness
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St. Clare Church Presents: Immaculée Ilibagiza on Faith, Hope & Forgiveness
February 2, 2018 @ 7:00 pm UTC+0
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St. Clare Church Presents: Immaculée Ilibagiza on Faith, Hope & Forgiveness
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Immaculée Ilibagiza has an astonishing story to tell of the most horrific experience imaginable being transformed into a story of faith and forgiveness. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide a local pastor hid her and seven other women in the bathroom of his house for ninety-one days. A university student, she emerged having lost nearly half her body weight only to find that most of her family had been murdered.
St. Clare Church Presents: Immaculée Ilibagiza on Faith, Hope & Forgiveness