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A powerful and important story of harrowing terror and hatred, extraordinary kindness and courage, and true faith and humanity. --Glenn Mitoma, Director of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut You will walk away from this book with a newfound appreciation for the Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian community that truly lived up to its name during the horror of 1994. --J.J. Carney, Associate Professor of Theology, Creighton University (USA), and author of Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era A riveting story of rescue which compels the reader to understand more keenly the moral choices that face humans every day but especially in moments of crisis. --Prof. John J. Michalczyk, Professor and Co-Director of Film Studies, Boston College Stories such as these--of rescue and risk--deserve to be central to the memory of the genocide. --Scott Straus, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, and author of The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda

"""A powerful and important story of harrowing terror and hatred, extraordinary kindness and courage, and true faith and humanity.""--Glenn Mitoma, Director of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut ""A riveting story of rescue which compels the reader to understand more keenly the moral choices that face humans every day but especially in moments of crisis.""--Prof. John J. Michalczyk, Professor and Co-Director of Film Studies, Boston College ""Stories such as these--of rescue and risk--deserve to be central to the memory of the genocide.""--Scott Straus, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, and author of The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda ""You will walk away from this book with a newfound appreciation for the Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian community that truly lived up to its name during the horror of 1994.""--J.J. Carney, Associate Professor of Theology, Creighton University (USA), and author of Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era"

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Dr. Tharcisse Seminega was born in Kabirizi, Rwanda, in 1941, to a devout Catholic family. He grew to adolescence during the turbulent transition from Belgian colonial rule to independence. Seminega studied for the priesthood but later pursued his Ph.D. in biotechnology, becoming a lecturer in 1977 at the National University of Rwanda in Butare. It was in Butare and vicinity that Seminega and his entire family lived through the Rwandan genocide. In 2003, Tharcisse and Chantal moved to Canada with four of their five children.

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