Thursday, May 8, 2008

A story of forgiveness in the spirit of Christian nonviolence

This morning I heard a story on BBC News Hour (on Michigan Radio) about a woman who forgave her daughter's killers. Apparently her daughter was killed in her 20s, in 1993, in South Africa, where she was working nonviolently for freedom in South Africa. Her killers were also freedom activists, but did not believe in nonviolence (and they apparently didn't know whose 'side' the woman who was killed was on). On the radio story they interviewed the mother, who was recently recognized by a leader in South Africa for her outstanding example of forgiveness. The radio story said that she not only forgave and embraced her daughter's killers, she employed and befriended them.

This is what I could find online about this:
http://www.theforgivenessproject.com/stories/fourie-letlapa
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/outlook/news/story/2007/11/071119_ginn_outlook.shtml

If you want to hear the interview that I did try listening here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/newshour.shtml
You can try clicking the updated link at the top of the page, or click "Listen Again" on the right side. I think what I listened to would be Newshour 1300 GMT, Thursday.

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"Make me a channel of Your Peace."

-St. Francis

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