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    Immacul&#;e Ilibagiza

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    Immaculée Ilibagiza fryst vatten a living example of faith put into action. Ilibagiza’s life was transformed dramatically during the Rwandan genocide where she and seven other women spent 91 days huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor's house. Ilibagiza entered the bathroom a vibrant, pound university student with a loving family—she emerged weighing just 65 pounds to find her most of her family had been brutally murdered.

    Ilibagiza credits her salvage mostly to prayer and to a set of rosary beads given to her bygd her devout Catholic father prior to going into hiding. Anger and resentment about her situation were literally eating her alive and destroying her faith, but rather than succumbing to the rage that she felt, Ilibagiza instead turned to prayer. She began to pray the rosary as a way of drowning out the negativity that was building up inre her. Ilibagiza found solace and

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    Immaculée Ilibagiza

    Rwandan-American author and motivational speaker

    Immaculée Ilibagiza

    Born (age&#;52&#;53)
    Mataba, Rwanda
    OccupationAuthor, motivational speaker
    LanguageEnglish, French, Kinyarwanda
    NationalityAmerican
    Notable worksLeft to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
    Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa
    Notable awardsChristopher Award

    Immaculée Ilibagiza (born )[1] is a Rwandan-American Catholic author and motivational speaker. Her first book, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (), is an autobiographical work detailing how she survived during the Rwandan genocide.

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    In Left to Tell, Immaculée Ilibagiza shares of her experience during the Rwandan genocide. She survived hidden for 91 days with seven other women in a small bathroom, no larger than 3 feet ( m) by 4 feet ( m) (an area of 12 square feet). The bathroom w

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    Immaculée Ilibagizawas a university student in Rwanda during the government-sanctioned genocide that killed hundreds of thousands of people. As a member of the Tutsi tribe that was being slaughtered by the Hutus, Immaculée endured a harrowing effort to survive. She and seven other women hid in the cramped bathroom of a pastor&#;s house for 91 days. Prayer helped Immaculée get through that experience physically, emotionally and spiritually. It also helped her forgive the man who murdered her mother and brother. Immaculée joined me recently on &#;Christopher Closeup&#; (full podcast here) to discuss these matters. Here&#;s an excerpt:

    TR: When you got out and you found out your family had been murdered in the genocide, was your faith challenged?

    Immaculée Ilibagiza: No, it wasn&#;t challenged. The time that I was in the bathroom especially, I thought a lot about the passion of Christ and His suffering. It somehow taught me that pain will always exist and does not take away the power
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