Faith Reportes found this interesting story from Rwanda which questions the motive of some Christian missionaries when they claim that they are preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven.
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| Rukara rwa (son of) Bishingwe, Rwandan native, comes out of the Roman Catholic Prison in 1912 |
This story, which
makes sense anywhere in the world, is about an encounter between a Rwandan
native called Rukara son of Bishingwe and a Roman Catholic Missionary
Pere Paulin Loupias.
Rukara son of
Bishingwe questioned the presence of the Catholic missionaries in the central
African country in 1910 when a Catholic Loupias accused him of removing
landmarks for the boundaries of a church’s massive land.
The Roman Catholic
Church used to grab the land of the natives and so when they did it to a relative
of a man Rukara, he removed the landmarks they had put as boundaries.
The Roman Catholics
summoned Rukara for the crime and sin he committed against the “holy ones” but
he refused to go and instead sent them a wonderful message: “I heard and
thought that you came to preach about the Kingdom of Heaven, why are you
grabbing land and making yourself judges in the Kingdom of Rwanda?”
Rukara who had never
seen or heard any Protestant missionaries was questioning the Roman Catholic
Church’s intention in Rwanda, indirectly saying that they were there for
political motives not for the gospel of the Kingdom of God just like the reformists did.
Rukara later went to
meet his accuser the Roman Catholic Missionary Loupias who greeted Rukara with
contempt and slapped the native in the presence of his fellow countrymen which
made Rukara to reciprocate Loupias action.
A fight broke out and
the Roman Catholic Missionary sought Rukara’s throat but the son of Bishingwe
was stronger and overwhelmed Loupias suffocating him to the last breath.
The native killed two more in the process of arresting and hanging him for killing Loupias.
On his last day, the
“pagan uneducated” man managed to reason to the Roman Catholic missionaries
that his children were innocent and pleaded on their behalf not to be victimized
for their father’s crime which was called a “sacrilegious sin”.
Instead of showing
love and forgiveness to the children, as people of the Kingdom of Heaven, the
Roman Catholic missionaries denied education to Rukara’s children and many
relatives were exiled into neighbouring Uganda which was peaceful under the
Protestant British.
The Roman Catholics gained dominance in the country, exiled the king and assassinated him in exile, forced a new king to dedicate Rwanda to the Queen Mother of heaven and his son.
We found so many more stories in Central and East Africa which explain the great controversy between Catholics and Protestants almost as it was in the William Tyndale time in England and we will share them with you.
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