The Angels Have Left Us: The Rwanda Tragedy and the Churches (Risk Books) - Softcover

McCullum, Hugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 282541154X ISBN 13: 9782825411544

Publisher: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications), 2004

Synopsis

Following the massacres that decimated Rwanda in 1994, the author carried out hundreds of interviews in the country and elsewhere with government, military and United Nations officials, pastors and church leaders, survivors, refugees and displaced people. This book focuses on the part played in these events by churches in Rwanda, throughout Africa and around the world -- sometimes a story of heroism and self-sacrifice, but too often one of cowardice, ethnocentrism and corruption. The author analyses the roots of the tragedy, looks at the future of a shattered church in a shattered country, and poses hard questions about what the church and the ecumenical family should do in a world where poverty, oppression and hatred are creating many potential Rwandas. On the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda, this book has been reissued, with a new preface and Afterword.

About this title

About the Author

Hugh McCullum is a Canadian journalist and author with extensive experience of Africa, as a staff member of the All Africa Conference of Churches and as a freelancer based in Zimbabwe writing for two major Canadian dailies.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Council of Churches (WCC Publications)
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 282541154X
• ISBN 13: 9782825411544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132