RWANDA
(See also Kinyarwanda [Language])
(Note centered heading below: Jehovah’s Witnesses)
animals:
mountain gorilla: g98 1/22 16-18; g87 9/22 4
children:
world’s highest fertility rate: g94 3/8 28
civil war (1994): yb12 193-194, 197; g 10/12 27-28; g04 9/8 5; w94 12/15 26-29; g94 12/22 12-13
children of raped women: g97 3/8 28
child victims: g05 4/22 28
failure of Catholic clergy: yb12 197, 199; w95 6/15 5; g95 12/22 24
failure of religious leaders: w96 4/15 14; g96 11/8 6; w95 6/15 5; w94 12/15 28; g94 12/22 19
failure of UN: g94 11/22 28
massacres unexplainable: g94 11/22 28
pope absolves Catholic Church: g97 2/8 28
pope laments Catholics involved: w94 12/15 28; g94 10/22 6; g94 12/22 19
refugee witchcraft: g95 8/8 28
religious involvement: yb12 197; w97 5/1 14; w96 7/1 5
women participate: g96 4/8 29
description: yb12 164-166; yb92 153
government order to eliminate religious discrimination in schools (2015): yb17 37
languages: yb12 166, 169; yb92 153
religion: yb12 166
Bible translation by United Bible Societies: yb12 247
Catholic Church failure: yb12 197, 199; w95 6/15 5; g94 12/22 19
involvement in civil war (1994): yb12 197; w97 5/1 14; w96 7/1 5
Jehovah’s Witnesses
assemblies: yb12 190-191
Assembly Halls: yb12 235-236, 241-243, 249, 254
ban (1982): yb12 176-177, 255; yb92 191
Bethel family: yb12 223, 230-231, 233-234, 243, 245-246
Branch Committee: yb12 185, 210, 235; yb04 219-220
branch office:
Kigali (2006): yb12 244-245, 254; yb08 27-28
children: yb12 236
government guarantees schooling (2015): yb17 36-37
ten-year-old contributes goat: yb02 44-45
circuit assemblies: yb12 172-173, 177; yb92 155
civil-war period (1994): w24.06 17-18; w12 3/1 5; yb12 193-196, 198-200, 213-222, 225, 227-228, 230-231; w95 1/1 6-7; w95 4/15 19; w94 11/1 22; w94 12/15 26-29; g94 12/22 12-17
faithful unto death: w96 11/1 32
girl’s prayer moves soldiers to spare family: yb12 198-199; w95 1/1 26
love among Witnesses praised: yb96 255
orphans cared for: yb12 203, 238
refugees in Congo and elsewhere: w25.09 29; w24.06 18; yb12 222-230, 238-239
risk lives for one another: w13 7/1 5; yb12 201-203, 205-209, 215-221; w98 4/1 18-19; w96 11/1 17-18
clergy opposition: yb12 174-176
congregations: yb12 176
conventions: yb12 187-189, 232-233, 237, 250, 254; w95 4/15 19
attended elsewhere: yb12 175; yb92 156, 192
Country Committee: yb12 189, 241
court cases: yb12 177, 248-249; yb92 193-194
Witness children exonerated from charge of not singing national anthem (2014): yb16 34
early witnessing: yb12 168-171, 254-255
field ministry: w13 7/15 2
growth: w19.07 29; yb12 169, 171-172, 174-176, 184, 186, 189, 223, 234-235, 251; yb01 46; w96 11/1 18; w95 1/1 6-7; g94 12/22 12; yb92 154-155, 190, 194
Kingdom Halls: yb12 241-242, 249, 255; km 9/02 6; yb92 190
Kingdom Ministry School: yb12 191; yb92 154, 190-191
legal matters:
Witness children guaranteed schooling (2015): yb17 36-37
legal recognition:
denied (1980): yb12 176; yb92 190
denied (1982): yb12 176
granted (1992): yb12 187-188, 254; jv 510; w92 11/1 24-25; km 8/92 7
Memorial: w13 7/15 2; yb12 251; w92 11/1 25
Ministerial Training School: yb12 243-244
missionaries: yb12 173-174, 188-189, 193, 195-196, 222, 243, 246, 254; w95 1/1 7; yb92 155
missionary homes: yb12 189, 191-192
modern history: yb12 164-255; yb92 153-157, 190-195
time line: yb12 254-255
neutrality issue: yb12 186-187, 239, 247-248
offices:
country office: yb12 192, 232, 243
translation office: yb12 185, 191-193, 195, 227-228, 230-232
persecution: yb12 177-184, 186, 254-255; yb92 191-194
letters protesting: yb12 184
persons:
Bahati, Albert and Vestine: yb12 208-209
Bint, Godfrey and Jennie: yb12 188-189, 193, 195-196, 237; yb04 219-220
Ellis, Leonard and Nancy: yb12 191-192
Hakizumwami, Phocas: yb12 179-180
I’Mugarula, Ferdinand: yb92 191-192
Koroti, Joseph: yb92 191-192
Mashariki, Ngirabakunzi and Emerance: yb12 233-234
Mugabo, Jean de Dieu (John) and Chantal: yb12 213-217
Mugarura, Ferdinand: yb12 172-173, 186
Mukandekezi, Odette: yb12 181-182
Munyaburanga, James: yb12 233
Munyampundu, Théobald and Berancille: yb12 239-241
Murinda, Oreste: yb12 237-238
Musabwe, Angeline: yb12 204-205
Musabyimana, Valerie: yb12 204-205
Mutezintare, Jean-Marie and Jeanne: yb12 182-183, 201-203
Mwaisoba, Oden and Enea: yb12 168-169; yb92 153-154
Ngirente, Emmanuel and Francine: yb12 185, 193, 195, 228, 230-231
Niyongira, Gaspard: yb12 174-175, 182, 210-212
Nsanzurwimo, Palatin and Fatuma: yb12 180
Reschke, Günter: yb12 232-233, 235-237
Rwagatore, Justin: yb12 171-172, 218-219, 221
Rwakabubu, Gaspard and Melanie: yb12 170-171, 176-178, 183, 187, 191-192, 198-199; yb92 154-155, 191-192
Semali, Alfred and Georgette: yb12 184, 206-207
Seminega, Tharcisse and Chantal: yb12 187, 217-221
Tonak, Manfred: yb12 174
Tshiteya, Jean: yb12 180-181
Twahirwa, André: yb12 214-216
van Bussel, Henk and Berthe: yb12 188-189, 193, 195-196, 222-225, 231-232, 237
special pioneers: yb12 168-169, 171-174; yb92 153-155, 191-192
Pioneer Service School: yb12 235
places:
Butare: yb12 177, 180-181, 217-221
Gisenyi: yb12 177, 237-238, 244, 246
Kigali: w24.06 17-18; yb12 168-169, 171, 177, 187-188, 190-191, 236, 241-244
Nyabisindu: yb12 179-180
Save: yb12 171-172
publications: yb12 174
Bible New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures: w15 12/15 13; yb12 246-247, 250, 255
booklet “This Good News of the Kingdom”: yb12 171, 255; yb92 155
book The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life: yb12 174; yb92 190
magazine Awake! on radio: yb92 191
magazine The Watchtower: yb12 174, 254-255; yb92 191
smuggled in: yb12 182
songbook Sing to Jehovah: yb12 250
released from prison: g88 1/8 30
relief from abroad:
civil-war refugees (1994): kr 218; yb12 225; g05 11/8 8; w98 1/15 3; w98 12/1 11
relief work: yb94 11-12
civil war period (1994): w24.06 17-18; yb95 14-17; w94 11/1 22; w94 12/15 29; g94 12/22 13-17
eruption of Congo volcano (2002): yb12 244
service experiences:
cruel husband: ijwcl article 11
girl accepts truth after seeing persecution: yb12 181-182
honesty of nine-year-old: yb09 43
isolated girl wins family over: yb03 58-59
Live Forever book found on road: yb07 48-49
one-legged man: yb99 44-45
Witness conduct during genocide: yb12 221-222
sign language for deaf: yb12 246
traveling overseers: yb12 183, 239-241
unassigned and seldom-worked territory: yb12 249-250
unity of Tutsi and Hutu: yb12 207, 215-217, 222, 225; yb97 49; w96 11/1 17-18, 32; w94 9/1 24-25; w94 12/15 26, 29; g94 12/22 13
visits by—
Gillet, Marcel: w24.06 17-18
Makumba, S.: yb12 169
Pierce, G. H.: yb12 250
war period (1990): yb12 186-187
war period (1993): yb12 189-190
youths:
rising soccer star: yb08 46