Stories of horror, hope: Immigrants share experiences at workshop

This church held a workshop where immigrants and refugees told their own stories. It is amazing what people go through before they come here. - - Donna Poisl

BY PAT JARRETT/STAFF

GROTTOES — When the man in the back of that truck in Rwanda held a gun to Jean Pierre Ndengeyingoma's head and told him to say his prayers, he did.

"Push the evil away," he prayed.

There was plenty of evil that year, 1994, when a genocidal civil war killed 800,000 people in the small East African nation.

Ndengeyingoma was nearly one of the victims. The man on the truck stabbed Ndengeyingoma in the chest, aiming for the heart, and pushed him off the truck. The attack left him bloody, but alive, on the side of the road.
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