Forgiveness is Medicine: Survivor of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798196025570)

On the day they tried to kill him three times, Jean Pierre Ndengeyingoma closed his eyes and prayed.

In April 1994, as the genocide against the Tutsi tore Rwanda apart, Jean Pierre found himself on the death list of the Interahamwe militia. Hunted through the streets of Kigali, stabbed, beaten, and left for dead, he survived three assassination attempts in a single day. For thirty days, he hid in a pit beneath a fireplace, praying in the darkness while killers searched for him door to door above his head.

But survival was only the beginning.

In this remarkable memoir, Jean Pierre recounts not only how he lived through one of the twentieth century's most devastating genocides, but how he went on to help rescue two thousand survivors from the Church of St. Paul, guide RPF soldiers through enemy territory, and ultimately find the one thing he never expected: the ability to forgive.

Forgiveness Is Medicine is a story of faith tested to its absolute limits, of a nation shattered and slowly rebuilt, and of one man's extraordinary journey from the darkness of a pit to the light of a life fully lived. It is a book about what it truly means to survive and what it costs, and what it gives back.

Forgiveness is not weakness. It is the greatest act of strength you will ever perform.