Hope for Rwanda

In his book Hope for Rwanda, Father Andre Sibomana notes how hard it was in the aftermath of genocide to bring Hutu and Tutsi together to talk about, even less agree on, the history of Rwanda. But then he tells of an incident in which he mobilized the people of his parish for the communal work of reconstruction. He recalls how they had to build everything from scratch: gardens, houses, pit latrines. During a break from the work, Sibomana was amazed to see Hutu and Tutsi workers drinking banana beer from the same cup.

Sibomana’s experience reminds us that a church interrupted by God’s…