The Rwandan government has once again begun enforcing inspection of prayer houses and has closed 70% of those it inspected. In a statement on its website, the Rwanda Governance Board stated: “RGB organizes frequent discussions and consultative meetings with church…
Will Rwanda keep the money as UK immigrant shipping deal falls apart?
Immigration policy is one of the major fallouts of the UK general elections held July 4, with the new British prime minister declaring a plan to ship migrants to Rwanda “dead and buried.” The previous prime minister, Rishi Sunak, had…
Rwanda: 30 years after the genocide
Thirty years ago this month, hell’s gate flung open in the land of a thousand hills, leading to the loss of 1 million lives in Rwanda. That poetic language by one analyst describes the most barbaric genocide the world has…
Despite a Supreme Court judgment stopping Britain’s migration deal with Rwanda, Sunak administration presses on
In the last couple of weeks, three issues have dominated debate in Britain: the Israeli/Hamas war in Gaza, the COVID-19 inquiry and Rishi Sunak’s migration deal with the Rwandan government. Of the three, the British and Rwandan government’s plan designed…
Alleged mastermind of Rwandan massacre inside church arrested 30 years later
Fulgence Kayishema — Africa’s most wanted man — was arrested in Cape Town, South Africa, five weeks ago after spending 30 years on the run. That one of the world’s biggest war-crimes suspects lived freely shines a spotlight on why…
On migrant crisis, the U.S. and UK governments share a controversial tactic in common
The United States practice of paying Mexico millions of dollars to keep asylum-seeking immigrants from crossing the southern border is not unique. The United Kingdom does something similar in partnership with Rwanda. In the U.S., the Biden administration has been…
Rwanda: 29 years after the genocide, there are still lessons to learn
“People have managed to turn the page and move forward from grieving, from crying, and people have decided to live on, and people have been ready, have been willing to do the most difficult thing: to forgive. Well, but we…
U.S. not only place where ‘nones’ on the rise
Looks like you don’t have to be American or European to give up on religion. And the same is especially true for young adults, who are becoming “nones” around the planet just as they are in the U.S., according to…
American adopts ‘son,’ 21, during Africa mission trip
By Emily Turner Amie Singleton never expected God to give her a 21-year-old “son” during a 2012 mission trip to Rwanda and Uganda with an international nonprofit that connects Americans to orphanages in Africa. While Singleton, who works at Our…