Category: Religion

The Rwanda Muslim faithful successfully completed fasting during the holy month of Ramadhan and celebrated Idd-el-Fitr.
Muslims flocked mosques across the country for prayers.

Idd begins after the sighting of a new crescent moon, marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, during which devout Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk.

Idd falls on the first day of Shawwal, the month after Ramadan in the Islamic calendar.

It is a time to give in charity to those in need, and celebrate with family and friends the completion of a month of blessings and joy.

Idd also represents the beginning of preparations for the Hajj period which ends with Idd al-Adha that is approximately 70 days after Idd el-Fitr.

The senior pastor of a Pentecostal Prayer Palace Church Moses Muhumuza has scooped a brand new Toyota Carina car at his wedding held at Excella primary school.

Pastor Muhumuza is a successor to the late pastor Jane Kanyange who died September 27, 2009. She was founder and senior pastor of Prayer Palace church.

The new brand car estimated at Rwf 5.5 million was procured by 11 members of the church and given to the pastor as a surprise gift in a gift giving session at the wedding reception.

All the invited guests and pastor Muhumuza plus his family members were all struck with a shock when the head of men group in the same church Bosa Rwemarika and his coworker John Rutayisire presented a car key to the pastor.

Muhumuza’s wedding which comes a few months after his ordination also attracted various guests including different popular pastors in Kigali like Bishop Charles Rwandamura of United Christian Church and Rev. Constantine Gasore of Evangelical Restoration Church among others.

Pastor James Gasana of Church of Hope told Igihe.com that Ap. Moses Muhumuza is now complete as a church minister upon getting married.

“Biblically it is right to get married and this makes him complete now. If he has a wife, she can organize issues at home when the husband goes for God’s work and having one to care for him when he comes back home,” Gasana said.

By Igihe.com Reporter

Hundreds of Catholic Christians in Rwanda since Sunday 14, 2011 have been engrossed in Marian feasts to commemorate Blessed Virgin Mary’s death and her bodily assumption into heaven.

Clad in their best wears Christians flocked different Eklizia to listen to different special sermons and programs like baptizing children.

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life is a defined dogma of the Catholic Church.

The Feast of the Assumption, celebrated every year on August 15, is a very old feast of the Church, celebrated universally by the sixth century.

“He is our role model mother and we have a role to play as Christians to be righteous at work, homes and neighborhoods and live exemplary life styles,” Bishop Nicodem Nagiziki who led the mass at St. Michael Church, Kigali.

Bishop Nagiziki also called upon mothers to emulate Virgin Mary’s life and the way she played a role in upbringing her son Jesus Christ believed to have saved human kind.

He also said another lesson to emulated from the assumption day, Nagiziki said that Christians should be obligated to bring joy to people living with them like Virgin Mary lived with Elizabeth in the bible whom they met while both pregnant and their fetus rejoiced upon meeting.

Innocent Ndagijimana a Catholic Christian in Kimisagara sector said that the day reminds him that God has a future for him.

He also said that it gives him hope because of the amazing grace that chose Virgin Mary to be a mother of world savior and not selective whether one is a Hutus, Tutsis, Twa or foreigners.

“As a believer the story of Virgin Mary, a selected girl in Jerusalem in a poor family where probably there were more beautiful girls and even those in royal families but ended up being chosen by God to be the mother of a savior,” Ndagijimana said.

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary commemoration of the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay a foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time.

Because it signifies the Blessed Virgin’s passing into eternal life, it is the most important of all Marian feasts and a holy day of obligation.

The feast was originally celebrated in the East, where it is known as the Feast of the Dormition, a word which means “the falling asleep.”

On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, exercising papal infallibility, declared in Munificentissimus Deus that it is a dogma of the Church that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.

As a dogma, the Assumption is a required belief of all Catholics; anyone who publicly dissents from the dogma, Pope Pius declared, has fallen away completely from the divine and Catholic Faith.

BY:igihe.com Reporter

The overseer of Zion Temple churches Apostle Paul Gitwaza has said that over 1000 people have benefited from the annual conference dubbed Africa Haguruka translated as ‘Africa Rise’.

They have been removed from the streets and put back to school while others trained and facilitated to begin small scale businesses.

Almost all of those who benefited live in the vicinity where the church is located in Gatenga sector community, Kicukiro District.

“We have workshops the whole week that help in training business, youth, women, and politicians in leadership positions to improve on what they are doing and preparing them in what they are planning to do or encourage those that have not yet decided what to do,” Gitwaza has said in interview.

The conference is annually organized in August with different themes aimed at encouraging, training and evangelizing the society to change both spiritually and mentality.

The 12th conference since 2000 had the theme “Invading nations with Kingdom Culture”.

Zion Temple has also spread to other parts of the world including USA, France and Belgium among other parts.

A one week conference ended today (Sunday) in a huge celebration at Zion Temple Headquarters at Gatenga sector, Kicukiro District and attracted thousands of followers from Kigali and from some African countries and as far as USA .

According to Gitwaza, hundreds of people benefited by improving their livelihoods from poverty including those who were removed from streets to schools, others beginning small scale businesses, and from prostitution now tailors.

Gitwaza says the conference also contributed in the changing of negative perceptions about Rwanda’s image as international preachers flown in and taking back the positive image Rwanda had developed.

“One of our primary goal when we started this conference was to export the Image of Rwanda especially unity and reconciliation that was taking part in the country then where survivors of 1994 Genocide were unifying and reconciling with perpetrators of the Genocide,” He added.

In related development the church has grown and has established Health Center in Gatenga benefiting about 48,000 people in the community, 200 families with health insurance (Mituel de Sante) catered for and a nine year basic education primary school.

During the conference, different church members distributed themselves in different parts for outreach including prisons where they have encouraged inmates to tell the truth, generosity to the refugees in camps and communities with gangs and prostitutes to leave their ways under the philosophy that a church should carry such transforming gospel.