Forgiveness Makes You Free, Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga
Forgiveness Makes You Free, Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga
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Forgiveness Makes You Free
A Dramatic Story of Healing and Reconciliation from the Heart of Rwanda

Author: Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga, Immaculee Ilibagiza

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 5 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/10/2020


Synopsis

In Forgiveness Makes You Free, Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga offers five spiritual principles that can help those traumatized by the past to experience healing and peace in Christ.

In 1994 the world looked on in disbelief and horror as Rwanda erupted in violent bloodshed. All across the landlocked African country, militant Hutus rose up to exterminate the Tutsi population, including women and young children. One hundred days later, a million bodies littered fields, streets, and even churches. Now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, a powerful testimony emerges of the power of God to bring peace and reconciliation into hearts full of fear and hate.

In Forgiveness Makes You Free, Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga shares his own dramatic story of how he survived the genocide and its traumatic aftermath. He testifies about how God spared his life so that he might help others with deep physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds to experience peace and healing. In retelling the story of how he forgave the man who killed his family and cared for the man's children while he was in prison, Fr. Ubald demonstrates how showing mercy can facilitate true forgiveness even in the most painful circumstances of our lives.

About Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga

Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga has been a Catholic priest in the Cyangugu diocese of southeastern Rwanda for thirty-five years. During the 1994 genocide, he lost more than eighty members of his family-including his mother-and more than 45,000 parishioners. During a trip to Lourdes, France, Fr. Ubald heard Jesus tell him to carry his cross: the genocide. In that moment, Fr. Ubald felt a release from the burden of his sorrows and knew he was called to preach healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Fr. Ubald continues to focus his ministry on healing and evangelization. He travels the world offering masses with healing prayers, from which there are many documented cases of physical, spiritual, relational, and emotional healings.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Debra

This was a beautiful book. Fr. Ubald was a beautiful priest. He was from Rwanda and he lost 85 members of his family, including his mother, in the genocide that occurred there. His story of his struggle, his healing and his mission to bring others to forgiveness and mercy is brought to life in this......more

Goodreads review by Marge

I was acquainted with Fr. Ubald and his amazing gift and message before I read the book - or at least I thought I was acquainted with him. This book sheds light, not only in this wonderful priest who God has chosen for a critical mission but also on the Rwandan genocide and the essence of forgivenes......more

Goodreads review by Heidi

How do you forgive the unforgiveable -- not for the sake of the one who has wronged you, but to find peace yourself? This is the question taken up by Fr. Ubald Rugirangoga, a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, which decimated the population of Rwanda through the slaughter of more than a million......more

Goodreads review by Shannan

Forgiveness. Seems easier said than done. Most of us have someone to forgive, buy try to forgive someone that has killed your mother or father. Father Rugiranoga had to do that. His father was killed when he was a child, and his mother was killed during the Rwandan Genocide in the mid 1990's. In thi......more