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6 posts tagged "Genocide"

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Lecturer discusses violence against women

Kathleen Meyer | Friday, April 26, 2019

Dr. Nancy Pineda-Madrid spoke regarding the current crisis of feminicide in Latin America as a part of the 34th annual Madaleva Lecture series Thursday in Carroll Auditorium. Madrid, the T. Marie Chilton Chair of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, defined feminicide as the systematic assassination of women because of their gender. “While there

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Perpetrator of genocide or Catholic hero?  

Jackie O'Brien | Wednesday, February 6, 2019

University President Fr. John Jenkins’s decision to cover the offensive and demeaning murals in the Main Building depicting the conquest and genocide of Christopher Columbus is a wonderful step in the right direction toward acknowledging the actuality of American and Catholic history, as well as respecting every student and person who steps foot on our

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Stop pretending we can ignore Syria’s crisis

Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, March 7, 2018

The world looks away as bombs and bullets destroy Syrian communities, especially in Ghouta, Idlib and Afrin. The world is in denial and is pretending that the massacres are not happening. This pretending has to stop. In the past seven years, almost half a million Syrians have been killed, and 11 million have been displaced from their

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Community commemorates anniversary of Rwandan genocide

Jack Rooney | Sunday, April 27, 2014

Members of the South Bend Rwandan community gathered in McKenna Hall on Saturday afternoon to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi people as part of the worldwide commemoration called “kwibuka 20.” The kwibuka 20 commemoration movement focuses on the themes of remembrance, unification and renewal. Kwibuka translates from Kinyarwanda, the language

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‘Nowhere to run’: Survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide reflect on its legacy

Tori Roeck | Thursday, April 24, 2014

Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a two-part series discussing two South Bend families’ experiences with the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in light of Notre Dame’s commemoration of the 20th anniversary of this tragedy to take place April 26. Jean Claude Mugenzi cannot lie face down in his bed without thinking of his father

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‘Grateful for every day’

Tori Roeck | Thursday, February 6, 2014

Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a three-part series discussing the Rutagengwa family’s search for God from the 1994 Rwandan genocide in light of their trip back to Rwanda in December. Notre Dame freshman Fiona Rutagengwa is the child of genocide survivors. Her parents, Jean Bosco Rutagengwa and Christine Rutagengwa, survived the 1994

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