LINKS
Vatican bio of Cardinal Kambanda
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_kambanda_a.html
Aontoine Kambanda on FIU's Cardinals Database (by Salvadore Miranda):
https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2020.htm#Kambanda
Cardinal Kambanda on Gcatholic.org:
http://www.gcatholic.org/p/52193
Cardinal Kambanda on Catholic-Hierarchy.org:
https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkamb.html
Archdiocese of Kigali on Gcatholic.org:
http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/kiga0.htm?tab=info
Archdiocese of Kigali on Catholic-Hierarchy.org:
https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dkiga.html
Official Vatican summary of JPII's 1990 visit to Rwanda (and other African nations):
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/travels/1990/travels/documents/trav_est-africa.html
2004 BBC timeline of the Rwandan Genocide:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3580247.stm
Caritas Internationalis official website:
https://www.caritas.org/
Athanase Seromba, genocidal priest:
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16189347
Seromba upsate: https://alchetron.com/Athanase-Seromba
2001 Washington Post reporting on Rwandan nuns jailed for role in genocide:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/06/09/rwandan-nuns-jailed-in-genocide/fce3308b-3e6e-4784-8490-0887f69c7a39/
VOA News coverage of 2016 Rwandan Bishops’ Conference statement acknowledging and apologizing for complicity in the genocide:
https://www.voanews.com/a/rwanda-genocide-catholic-bishops/3605319.html
Reaction to 2019 Rwandan Bishops’ Conference statement:
https://cisanewsafrica.com/rwanda-bishops-apologize-for-calling-for-release-of-convicts-of-genocide/
2022 English-language video interview with Cardinal Kambanda (via The New Times/Pacis TV):
https://youtu.be/yadR0vD1EW4?si=J5nJHxHCLjFMd0z7
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TRANSCRIPT
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Today we're discussing another current Cardinal of the Catholic Church, one of the 120 or so people who will choose the next Pope when the time comes.
Antoine KAMBANDA was born on November 10, 1958 in Nyamata, Rwanda, which is today part of the country's Eastern Province. Rwanda has somewhat famously had ethnic tensions between two out of three of their main tribes, the Hutu and the Tutsi. Antoine and his family were Tutsi, and, well, content warning, because today's episode includes a genocide.
Antoine studied internationally right from the start, doing primary schooling in neighboring Burundi and Uganda, followed by secondary school in somewhat more distant Kenya. His seminary training took place back in Rwanda, and in 1990 he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Kigali, Kigali being Rwanda's Capital. He was actually personally ordained by Pope Saint John Paul II during his 1990 visit to Rwanda.
Fortunately for him Father Kambanda decided to pursue further studies and so left for the Alphonsian Academy in Rome in 1993, I say fortunately because while he was studying abroad his parents and five of his six siblings were killed during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide during which half a million people were butchered and hundreds of thousands more were raped, predominately Tutsi but also a fair number of Hutu and Twa who were less than enthusiastic about joining the murderous Hutu militias. And those are the more conse
