{"id":164,"date":"2009-02-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2009\/02\/bishop-of-rwanda.html"},"modified":"2009-02-16T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T11:00:00","slug":"bishop-of-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2009\/02\/bishop-of-rwanda.html","title":{"rendered":"Bishop of Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazztheologian.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c63c953ef0105368c9256970b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BishopJohn\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341c63c953ef0105368c9256970b \" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazztheologian.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c63c953ef0105368c9256970b-800wi\" \/><\/a>Bishop John Rucyahana of Rwanda will be &#160;sharing with us in all of our services at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradocommunity.org\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Community Church<\/a>&#160;<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">this weekend<\/span>. &#160;He is author of the deeply movng book, &#160;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bishop-Rwanda-Thomas-Nelson\/dp\/1595552375\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1229980455&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Bishop of Rwanda: &#160;Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones<\/a><\/span>. &#160;If you&#039;re not in the Denver area you can either download his message from the church&#039;s website or we&#039;ll also try to YouTube it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop John Rucyahana of Rwanda will be &#160;sharing with us in all of our services at Colorado Community Church&#160;this weekend. &#160;He is author of the deeply movng book, &#160;Bishop of Rwanda: &#160;Finding Forgiveness Amidst a Pile of Bones. &#160;If you&#039;re not in the Denver area you can either download his message from the church&#039;s website&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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