Baptist Christians Are Working for Peace in Some of the World’s Hardest Places - Word&Way

Baptist Christians Are Working for Peace in Some of the World’s Hardest Places

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Rwanda flag wallWhen Katie Cook attended the recent Global Baptist Peace Conference she shared a meal with Eleazar Ziherambere, who lived in Rwanda in 1994, when some 800,000 people were slaughtered by their own countrymen in a matter of 100 days.

Now retired, he shared that during that summer, “I stopped asking for God to spare my life. I began to pray, ‘When they kill me, please let it be quick.’” Even after 25 years, the pain in his voice was still evident.

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