EYM Rwanda - Apostleship of Prayer

INKORAMUTIMA Z’UKARISTIYA
MOUVEMENT EUCHARISITIQUE DES JEUNES
RWANDA

STATISTICS
Dioceses - 9
Butare-2700
Kabgayi- 2000
Kigali -2250
Nyundo- 667
Cyangugu - 2220
Kibungo- 2111
Gikongoro- 720
Ruhengeri-
Byumba- 92
TOTAL - 12760

RWANDA –LAND OF A THOUSAND HILLS
PAYS DES MILLE COLLINES
AREA
26,338
Sq.Km.
Population
11000000
Catholic
64% (4,359,576)
Protestant
9 %
Diocese
9
No of Parishes
148
Priests
513
Religious Priests
170
Religious Sisters
1265
Religious Brothers
216
Members Inst. Secular
147
Seminarians
323
Lay Catechists
4030

HISTORY OF MEJ
YEAR RESPONSABLE PERSON
1953
Msgr.
Laureant DEPRIMOZ Missionary of Africa (France)
1980
-
1990
Religious Community of Bernadine (BUTARE) Groups at the Cathedral
, Butare
1994
War
(Genocide in Rwanda)
1998
Bro.
Yuvenali Bukuru Bros of St Paul, Burundi, Revived the Movement, started MEJ groups in
schools,
Butare, printed booklets with financial assistance from Ms Afr.
2000
-
2010
Movement spread in other
dioceses –Kigali, Kibungo, Kabgayi, Cyangugu, Gikongoro, Nyundo by
Religious Sisters, & Diocesan Priests.
2005
Election of 1
st National Committee - Pilgrimage to Kibeho ( Shrine of Mary’s apparition – Mère du
Verbe
) ( since 2004 pilgrimage becomes an annual feature).
2010
P.
Claudio, Sr. Lourdes, Jean Claude Ipungu visit Rwanda- openness to the International World.- An
enlightening process begins of becoming ONE BODY to serve ONE LORD.
2011
An effort to start Apostleship of Prayer by a member of the National Committee
–Xaverine
UWIMANA
- she recruits other lay people and forms a committee.
2011
Participation in the 2
nd Panafrican meeting at Kinshasa, DRC
2012
Participation in the 1
st World Congress.

MEETING WITH BRO. BUKURU FROM BURUNDI WHO COURAGEOUSLY KEPT THE MOVEMENT ALIVE AFTER THE
WAR IN 1994.