Our Lady of Kibeho
The very first Marian Apparitions on the Continent of Africa recognized by the Holy See. These apparitions took place at Kibeho, the small village of southwestern Rwanda. It was on November 28, 1981, that the Virgin Mary visited Rwanda to deliver her message to the whole world. She appeared to three girls who were students in high school (Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, and Marie Claire Mukangango.) She appeared to them several times between 1981 to 1989. She Identified herself as Nyina wa Jambo(Kinyarwanda for Mother of the Word.) On June 29, 2001, after a long time of investigations, His Excellency Most Reverend Augustin Misago, the bishop of the Diocese of Gikongoro, declared the authenticity of those apparitions after the approval of the Holy See. The Marian Sanctuary at Kibeho was named The Shrine of Our Lady of Kibeho in 1992. The main message of Our Lady of Kibeho was an urgent call to conversion of hearts and an urgent call to a constant prayer without hypocrisy.
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Mary’s Apparitions for the World: Kibeho, Rwanda
Ten years before the horrible genocide broke out in Rwanda, Mary danced and sang with her African children at the Catholic high school at Kibeho in the heart of a Rwandan jungle. Mary appeared to them as “Mother of the Word.” The apparitions at Kibeho were beyond sensational, going on for months and capturing the whole nation. Alphonsine Mumureke, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, and Marie Claire Mukangango were the first seers and the number would grow, including Segatashya, the pagan boy who saw visions of Jesus and became himself an evangelizer. The apparitions were carefully monitored by eccleastical authorities from the very beginning and Rome was kept informed. Mary made it clear that her messages here were not just for the local people but for the world. Mary spoke of the importance of the Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows and an urgent call to repentance.
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The Shrine of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows of Kibeho
Kibeho is a small town in South Rwanda, in the current administrative district of Nyaruguru, 162 km from the country's capital city, Kigali. Kibeho is also the name given to one of the parishes in the diocese of Gikongoro, founded in 1934 and dedicated to Mary, Mother of God. Today, Kibeho is best known as a place of pilgrimages and Marian apparitions, which have been recognized by the Church. The apparitions of Kibeho began on November 28th, 1981, and came to an end on November 28th, 1989. Our Lady first appeared to Alphonsine Mumureke, a 16-year-old girl, while she was still in high school. Teachers and students found it difficult to believe her and many mocked her. However, some time later other young students also claimed to have had visions: Natalie Mukamazimpaka, a 17-year-old girl who saw the Our Lady for almost two years, beginning in January 1982; and 21-year-old Marie-Claire Mukamgango, to whom the Mary appeared from March to September 1982, giving her the mission of spreading the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary throughout the Church. Four other people claim to have witnessed the apparitions; however, they have not been officially recognized by the Church. In 1983, the apparitions were interrupted, and only Alphonsine continued to see the Our Lady each year on the 28th of November, until the year 1989.To all these visionaries, Mary presented herself as the Mother of the Word (In the local language: Nyina Wa Jambo). The message that Mary delivered in Kibeho is an urgent appeal to the world, a call for repentance and the conversion of hearts, for sincere prayer, a call to love and to live the faith intensely. But it is above all a call for reconciliation: Mary requests that sin be renounced; she deplores all forms of idolatry, lack of respect, materialism, hypocrisy and sexual immorality. Mary calls on the world to change while there is still time, advising it against the serious consequences of its current moral state. On October 15th, 1982, the visions were frightful: flowing blood, people killing each other, abandoned dead bodies with no one to attend to the burial. These visions proved to be prophetic in view of the human dramas that took place in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region between 1994 and 1995 during the civil and ethnic wars between the Hutus and Tutsis. Within only a few months, the genocide claimed 800,000 lives in Rwanda, among whom were 3 bishops and more than 400 priests and religious. Marie-Claire, one the visionaries, was also killed during the massacre. On August 15th, 1988, Bishop Jean Baptiste Gahamanyi of the Diocese of Butare allowed public worship at the Marian Shrine of Kibeho, and named it Our Lady of Sorrows. On June 21st, 2001, the Holy See gave its approval.Prayer to Our Lady of Sorrows Holy Mary, Mother of Sorrows, teach us to understand the value of the Cross in our lives, so that we may complete in our bodies that which is lacking in the Passion of Christ, in benefit of His Mystical Body, which is the Church.And when our pilgrimage on this earth ends, allow us to live eternally with you in the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.
Marian Aparitions in Kibeho, Rwanda
Taken from the amazing video Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century. A Message of Urgency.
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The Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in Kibeho, Rwanda from 1981-89. She brought many beautiful messages to the visionaries, but one day she brought a warning that shocked everyone. She told a crowd of over 25,000 that a river of blood was coming to their country if they did not listen. She begged them to love, forgive, & honor each others differences or a bad thing would happen. 12 years later, the terrible genocide came to Rwanda. Mary's prediction and warning came true. This is one of the many things that the Catholic Church used to prove that these apparitions were real and the Vatican approved Kibeho in 2001. Immaculee Ilibagiza is a Rwandan genocide survivor who now resides in the United States. Her N.Y. Times Best Selling book, Left to Tell is being made into a movie by famed Passion of the Christ Producer, Steve McEveety. Immaculee speaks around the country about her story of forgiveness, and also devotes special weekends to retreats about Our Lady of Kibeho, so that we can hear the messages of Our Lady and avoid the same warnings that she brought about Rwanda. The Blessed Mother specifically said that she was coming for the whole world, not just Rwanda or Kibeho. She wants us all to heed these warnings. Go to Immaculee.com for more information on this or joining one of her wonderful weekend retreats about Our Lady.
Witness to Our Lady of Kibeho - Catholicism Live!
Three children in Kibeho, a small town in the southern region of Rwanda, Africa, witnessed a supernatural phenomenon. Crowds gathered around them in the schoolyard as they reported interaction with the Blessed Virgin Mary. In this episode of Catholicism Live!, we discussed more about this apparition with Brother Alexis Marie Secondaire, O.P. Miss. who was present during the extraordinary apparitions of Our Lady of Kibeho.
Rwanda: Kibeho, Our Lady of the Sorrows
In 2003, the Vatican formally recognized a series of Marian apparitions that occurred between 1981 and 1983 in the town of Kibeho in the southwest of Rwanda. It was here that three young women, Nathalie, Alphonsine and Claire, received messages about their spiritual life but darker visions of an impending violence that was to visit Rwanda. A civil war between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes broke out in April 1994. The genocide that followed, consumed 800.000 lives, above all women and children. Today Kibeho is under the care of the Pallottine Fathers, and they are striving to make it a center of pilgrimage for reconciliation, conversion and peace. November 2011 is the 30th anniversary of the first apparition and the 10th anniversary of the Church's official recognition of this Marian shrine.
A trip to Kibeho, Rwanda [The Morning Call]
Kibeho is a small town located in the southern part of Rwanda. But it welcomes over 100,000 people every year. To some, it is the holiest place in Africa...because about 30 years ago, reported apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ occurred to some young children.…
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Our Lady of Kibeho
When Our Lady appeared in Kibeho from 1981-1989, the world listened as her messages sang out through the voices of the visionaries. This song honors her apparitions and the Shrine where thousands of pilgrims come year round to pay homage to Our Lady of Kibeho. When she came to Rwanda, she told the people that her messages were meant for the whole world. These apparitions are the only Vatican approved apparitions in the continent of Africa and were so acknowledged by Pope John II in 2001.
Marian Shrines of the World #10: Our Lady of Sorrows of Kibeho
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In this episode of Marian Shrines of the World, Fr. Andre takes us to Kibeho, Rwanda where we take a look at the apparitions and shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows of Kibeho.
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Rwanda: Kibeho - Trailer
This trailer presents the first 10 minutes of the CRTN - documentary Kibeho.
Production Date: 2007
Duration: 49
Copyright : CRTN
Language: English, French, Kinirwanda
Executive Producer: Mark Riedemann
Director: Agnieszka Dzieduszycka
In 2003, the Church formally recognized a series of Marian apparitions that occurred between 1981 and 1983 in the town of Kibeho in the Diocese of Gikongoro in the southwest of Rwanda. Here, three people, Nathalie Mukamazimpaka, Alphonsine Mumureke and Claire Mukangango, received messages from Our Lady. During the 1994 massacres, 20,000 Tutsi were murdered in Kibeho, and Kibeho's population dropped from 58,000 to less than 20,000. Kibeho's percentage of Catholics also dropped from 83% to 49%. Today Kibeho is under the care of the Pallottine Fathers, and they are striving to make it a center of pilgrimage for reconciliation, conversion and peace. The program considers the story of Kibeho, the apparitions, the frightening messages of impending war, the genocide and the healing ongoing today.
Our Lady's School in Kibeho
Mere Du Verbe is the school where Our Lady of Kibeho first appeared. It has been over 35 years since Mary first starting appearing to three school girls in Rwanda. 15 years after the Genocide that Mary predicted, survivor, Immaculee Ilibagiza began leading pilgrims back to her home land. It was during a 2016 visit that she learned about the horrible disrepair of the school where the only Vatican Approved apparitions occurred. She has taken it upon herself to raise money for the school to get it up to civilized standards. The school is run by a quiet group of Rwandan Nuns, and they are not run by a larger worldwide order that has access to funds and fundraising. Immaculee has set up a GO FUND ME PAGE at or you can visit her website at immaculee.com to learn more. Checks can be mailed to Servants of Our Lady to PO Box 10, Hiawassi, GA 30546
Rwanda's apparitions
Down a dusty road in the middle of Rwanda stands a simple, tall Catholic church surrounded by brick paths and trimmed grass. This is the Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows in Kibeho.
Our Lady Of Kibeho
NEW YORK— In 1981, several young women at a religious boarding school in southern Rwanda reported seeing apparitions of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ in Christian belief. Others soon claimed to see her as well, and news of the visions swept the region, attracting throngs of religious seekers and inspiring a wave of conversions and calls for repentance. That's the inspiration for Our Lady of Kibeho, a new play by African American writer Katori Hall, premiering at New York's Signature Theater.
By Carolyn Weaver
Source: VOA
Our Lady of Kibeho
In 1981, a village girl in Rwanda claims to see the Virgin Mary. She is denounced by her superiors and ostracized by her schoolmates—until impossible happenings begin to appear to all. Skepticism gives way to fear, causing upheaval in the school community and beyond. Based on real events, Our Lady of Kibeho is an exploration of faith, doubt, and the power and consequences of both.
WARNING: This show contains images of violent and graphic nature, please use discretion.
Written by Katori Hall, Our Lady of Kibeho runs October 5–7, 2017 at Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall. For more information, visit wm.edu/boxoffice
EWTN Live - 2012-11-28 -Immaculee Ilibagiza and Sean Bloomfield
They discuss the new documentary which follows her return to Rwanda, the place where all of her family and nearly one million people were murdered.
Marian Shrines of the World # 10: Our Lady of Sorrows of Kibeho
In this episode of Marian Shrines of the World, Fr. Andre takes us to Kibeho, Rwanda where we take a look at the apparitions and shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows of Kibeho.
Our Lady Of Kibeho - production trailer
Performing at Royal & Derngate on Sat 12 January - Sat 2 February.
By Katori Hall
Directed by James Dacre
In 1981 at Kibeho College in Rwanda, a young girl claimed to have seen a vision of the Virgin Mary who warned her of the unimaginable: Rwanda becoming hell on earth. She was ignored by her friends and scolded by her school but then another student saw the vision, and another, and the impossible appeared to be true.
Katori Hall’s Our Lady Of Kibeho presents us with a haunting insight into the true events that captured the world’s attention. A vibrantly theatrical meditation on faith and everyday miracles, it was hailed “the most important play of the year” by the Wall Street Journal when it premiered in New York in 2014.
Featuring stirring original music, this UK premiere of Our Lady Of Kibeho promises to be an epic event. It will be directed by Artistic Director James Dacre, who premiered Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop which won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010.
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