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Today was quite different than the preceding three days of visiting genocide memorial sites. This morning we visited a TIG prison farm...

There are no words for Murambi. Our group of 40 Rwandans and internationals spent the day at Murambi today. It was a rough day for all of...

Inspiring morning at the Closing Ceremonies of the National Week of Mourning at the Rebero Genocide Memorial, just outside of Kigali. In...

This will be short posting.  It’s already 12:20 am and we have an early departure in the morning. We spent the morning at the Kigali...

Our 2nd Peacemaker Institute Rwanda Bearing Witness Retreat began this afternoon with orientation, introductions, and a really powerful...

Our Peacemaker Institute staff attended the opening ceremonies of the National Week of Commemoration and Mourning, honoring the victims...

As one would imagine, our second visit to Rwanda has been a deep plunge into not knowing and bearing witness. As I write this report, I’m...

The wind and cold were even more intense on Thursday, the 4th day of the retreat. Suffering even a little seems to make Birkenau some how...

Wow, what an evening. I’m guess I’m going to write about today starting in reverse, because that’s what’s most alive for me right now. We...

We began our morning as usual with the small council circles, where the listening and sharing goes very deep. After breakfast we walked...

Photo by Peter Cunningham Report from Fleet Maull We arrived in Oswiecim, Poland, by bus from Krakow this morning and settled into our...

I’d been driving through thick, tall forests that blanket either side of the two land state road with an almost haunted feeling...

Today we completed the fourth day of the Zen Peacemaker bearing witness retreat here at Auschwitz & Birkenau. This is my eighth retreat...

 Rwanda surprises us as one of the safest and most welcoming countries on the continent.  What a joy to be home again.

Today was our conference day. We hear presentation from our partner organizations: the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission, the...

After hour morning council circles, we boarded our bus for the 30 minute ride to the TIG work camps. TIG is a French acronym that stands...

We skipped our early morning small group councils today in order to leave early for Murambe, 3.5 hours southwest of Kigali near the...

After our morning small group councils, in which are Rwandan friends are getting more comfortable sharing their hearts each day, we...

(warning: contains highly disturbing descriptions) After our first morning council groups, two groups of nine each, both including...

We welcomed our Rwanda retreat partners and participants today at our retreat headquarters at the Presbyterian Church Guesthouse in...