Can the Rwandan Catholic Church Overcome its History of Politicization? A Reply to Philippe Denis by Anthony Court

“…One of the most controversial questions to emerge from the occurrences of the 1990s has been the role of the churches, and particularly the dominant Roman Catholic Church, in the violence manifesting in its most extreme form in the genocide of 1994. This article addresses the claim by the scholar Philippe Denis in his essay ‘Christian gacacaand official gacacain post-genocide Rwanda’ (Denis 2019:1-27of 27) that the Rwandan Catholic Church has played a leading role in the difficult process of post-genocide reconciliation. …”
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The African social question: A challenge to the African church in light of the two synods on Africa

“… The First Synod of Catholic Bishops on Africa took place in April 1994 in the wake of the Rwandan genocide. That horrendous fratricide has left a dark spot in the history of Catholicism in Africa where “the blood of tribalism is thicker than the water of baptism”. …”
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