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Led By Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide
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Describes the author's experience of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, her attempts to find meaning in the aftermath of the violence, the solace she found in religion, and her eventual move to the United States.
Publishers Description
For three months in the spring of 1994, the African nation of Rwanda descended into one of the most vicious and bloody genocides the world has ever seen. Immacule Ilibagiza, a young university student, miraculously survived the savage killing spree that left most of her family, friends, and a million of her fellow citizens dead. Immacule’s remarkable story of survival was documented in her first book, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. In Led By Faith, Immacule takes us with her as her remarkable journey continues. Through her simple and eloquent voice, we experience her hardships and heartache as she struggles to survive and to find meaning and purpose in the aftermath of the holocaust. It is the story of a nave and vulnerable young woman, orphaned and alone, navigating through a bleak and dangerously hostile world with only an abiding faith in God to guide and protect her. Immacule fends off sinister new predators, seeks out and comforts scores of children orphaned by the genocide, and searches for love and companionship in a land where hatred still flourishes. Then, fearing again for her safety as Rwanda’s war-crime trials begin, Immacule flees to America to begin a new chapter of her life as a refugee and immigrant—a stranger in a strange land. With the same courage and faith in God that led her through the darkness of genocide, Immacule discovers a new life that was beyond her wildest dreams as a small girl in a tiny village in one of Africa’s poorest countries. It is in the United States, her adopted country, where Immacule can finally look back at all that has happened to her and truly understand why God spared her life . . . so that she would be left to tell her story to the world. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 220
Dimensions: Length: 0.75" Width: 6.25" Height: 9"
Weight: 0.85 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Sep 1, 2009
Publisher Hay House
ISBN 1401918883
EAN 9781401918880
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 | Amazing Faith Dec 1, 2009 |
| This is the second book by Immaculee that I have read. I am amazed by her faith. | | | | The rest of the story Oct 30, 2009 |
| Immaculee Ilibagiza's story is a testimony to the power and importance of faith and to the ability to change the world through forgiveness and prayer. Her first book, Left to Tell, was at once awful and great. The story of man's inhumanity to man was almost too difficult to read - yet, it was impossible for me to put the book down. This second story - Led by Faith - takes the reader to the next chapter of Immaculee's life and demonstrates the ongoing struggle necessary for life to go on after so much death. | | | | Led By Faith Sep 16, 2009 |
| This was an amazing story of trust and faith in God. We can all see God working in our lives every day if we just pay attention. I highly recommend this book to everyone even if you haven't read Immaculee Ilibagiza's other books. She is a wonderful example of faith. | | |  | Critical thoughts Sep 8, 2009 |
I have a hard time with the message of Immaculees book LEFT TO TELL:
The message of the book seems to be: If you believe in God and pray hard, He will save you.
In the beginning Immaculee returns to her family home. Her brother warns: We have to cross the Lake and Flee Rwanda; otherwise we will all be killed! What answers Immaculee? She says: NO, God will not allow that and persuades the family to stay. She does her part in having her family killed. Would she have supported her brother, she might at least have saved her family. Her blind faith in God proved to be her family`s downfall.
While the Hutus threaten and kill Tutsis in her village, she flees to hide. She does NOT stay with her family. She hides. I do not blame her for that, we are human, we do not want to die, but what is so saintly about that? Where is her belief in God there? Then the teacher who offers her a hiding place tells her that her brother cannot stay in his house. The man is a Hutu and risks his life for her. She wakes her brother, tells him he has to leave and lets him go into the night. She is not solidary. She does not go with him. She hides and lets her brother go into his certain death. And blames the teacher for it.
Then she survives many attempts of Hutus to find and kill her and it seems she thinks she survives, because she prays so fervently.
Who does she think she is? Chosen by God? She prayed more fervently than thousands of others? And who is this God who saves her and has a million of others brutally killed? Do we want to pray and praise to a God like that? And now she gets famous with her books???
She does not convince me at all.
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| | | | Led Ny Faith Sep 4, 2009 |
Very moving story about forgiveness and faith. People who refer to themselves as Christians
should read this book. | | | Write your own review about Led By Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide
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