Felin Gakwaya

Yes, it is.

It will work.

It's not over yet.

We have still long to go, but we are persistent.

That's why we have in Menebumwe unity and reconciliation and resilience.

And these children live together.

They don't see a muhutu mututsi.

They don't see mutwa in their own faces, but they see Rwandese and friends and dear brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus.

They love each other.

That's reconciliation.

Reconciliation is not necessarily the word reconciliation.

Reconciliation is practical.

Reconciliation is living together.

In these villages we are talking about, we have constructed, in the lives we are living together, in the churches,

all the work, all the friendship, all the intermarriages that are taking place, all interrelationships, business sharing, partnership in business, all is reconciliation.

Reconciliation to me as a bishop is not the word, is not the grades of people.

It's not the amount of money, the poor and the rich.

No, it's that ability, that test of loving each other and living together and producing together.

And expect a common destiny together.

Bishop Ruchahana speaks about reconciliation as something spiritual, but also something difficult, slow and deeply painful.