Our Lady of Kibeho’s messages concern the whole world

Our Lady's apparitions in Kibeho, Rwanda, began on November 28, 1981, and ended on November 28, 1989. Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, one of the three visionaries of Kibeho recalls:

"Our Lady taught me to pray the Rosary Crown of the 7 Sorrows because she said that a tragedy was brewing in Rwanda. Our Lady asked us to change our lifestyle, to love the sacraments, to do penance, to pray without ceasing by reciting the Rosary of the 7 Sorrows for the conversion of the hearts of those who have departed from God, and to be humble in asking for forgiveness and in forgiving."

Bishop Augustin Misago, Bishop of Gikongoro, the diocese on which Kibeho depends, recalls the amazement and anxiety generated by the story of the visionaries:

"We realize now that the Rwandan tragedy had been foretold. But I remember that on August 15, 1982, on the feast of the Assumption, the visionaries, instead of seeing the Virgin full of joy, witnessed terrible, frightening visions of corpses from which sprang abundant streams of blood, left unburied on the hills. No one knew what these terrible images meant. Now we are able to interpret the events anew, and see that they were probably a vision of what happened in Rwanda and in the region of the Great Lakes where blood was flowing, in Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo."

The Bishop of Gikongoro added that Our Lady of Kibeho’s messages concern the whole world. "A conversion of hearts is needed to obtain greater justice. We live in a situation of global imbalance where the rich continue to get richer and the poor to get poorer. It is a shameful situation that each person will have to evaluate according to his or her conscience."

The editorial team of Marie de Nazareth

See also: Marian Fathers in Kibeho