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www.womenthirdmillennium.org - March 21, 2008 - 09:36 AM
In 1994, native Rwandan Immaculée Ilibagiza was a 22-year-old college student with a bright future in electrical engineering. While visiting her parents for Easter that year, the assassination of Rwandan’s Hutu president sparked a three-month killing spree that would shock the world and claim the lives of nearly a million ethnic Tutsis, including Immaculée’s parents and two brothers. She survived the holocaust by hiding in a Hutu pastor’s tiny bathroom with seven other terrified women for 91 unforgettable days. Immaculée’s remarkable story of survival is only the beginning of an inspiring journey through faith to an impossible end—to seek out and forgive even her family’s killers. She chronicles her experience in Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, published in 2006. “I was born in paradise,” writes Ilibagiza, whose story begins with a loving tribute to her beloved homeland. “Rwanda is a tiny country set like a jewel in central Africa,” she continues. “She is so breathtakingly beautiful that it’s impossible not to see the hand of God in her lush, rolling hills, mist-shrouded mountains, green valleys and sparkling lakes.” From here, this devout Catholic was plunged into the heart of darkness, until the light of Christ broke through, leading her to a profound and lasting grasp of divine mercy. “I found a place in the bathroom to call my own,” she writes in Left To Tell. That place, she says, “was a small corner of my heart” where “I retreated as soon as I awoke, and stayed there until I slept. It was my secret garden, where I spoke with God, meditated on his words, and nurtured my spiritual self.” Her story has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide, and has been translated into fifteen languages. Left To Tell has been adopted into the curriculum of dozens of high schools and universities, including Villanova University, which selected it for the 2007-2008 “One Book Program,” making it mandatory reading for 6,000 students. It has also been featured on 60 Minutes, BET, CNN and in the New York Times. In 2006, Immaculée was named one of Beliefnet.com’s “Most inspiring People of the Year,” and is a recipient of the American Legacy’s Women of Strength and Courage Award. Four years after the genocide, Immaculée immigrated to the United States and began working for the U.N., establishing the Left To Tell Charitable Fund to help orphaned children in Africa. Her speaking engagements and book sales benefit this charitable fund. Immaculée will be speaking in Dallas about her transformative experience. Her appearance, sponsored by Lumen Institute, Women for the Third Millennium, and Regnum Christi, will take place on April 30 at 6:30 pm at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, 6911 Lemmon Avenue. Tickets are $50 for preferred seating; $35 for general admission seats, and can be purchased at www.womenthirdmillenium.org., or by calling Helen McCleneghen at 972-612-5978. Immaculée is regarded as one of world's leading speakers on peace, faith, and forgiveness. She has shared her universal message with world dignitaries, school children, multinational corporations, churches, and at many conferences. You won’t want to miss this exceptional opportunity to hear her triumphant story.