80 Percent Angel Video 8: Healing Blindness - Mary in Kibeho

A country in great pain is how one could describe Rwanda.

No where is that hard reality clearer than in Kibeho, a small hill where upon the Virgin Mary appeared to a young girl named Natalie. Since the first apparition in 1981, Kibeho has become a pilgrimage for thousands.

A place of suffering and a place of prayer one might say because on this one hill alone 25,000 people were killed during the 1994 genocide. Purples spots denote holes in the wall where belligerents through in grenades and gasoline. The killings continued for several more years.

No place in Rwanda does the spiritual struggle meet so intently as in Kibeho, a place with no water and electricity, full of the old & demoralized, though it fills regularly with thousands of faithful who walk a hundred miles to get there.

The light on that hill has not been diminished, thanks to the tireless work of one woman. Sister Rafaela Nalecz came to Kibeho to start a school for the blind and she won't leave until she replicates what she's already done in India where hundreds of blind children are being educated in a school she started on her own.

"When the Virgin Mary appeared she insisted upon the way of the cross. You must suffer in order to achieve something," says Pallotine Father Antoine Baligora who like Sister Nalecz is there because he has great compassion for the suffering.

To honor these tireless servants, who exhibit great fortitude and strength in their work at Kibeho, this video has featured the Caring Habit: "Love Your Work."

Produced by Parker Snyder
Photography by Kasia Romanska

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[DawnInTexas]

Sister Rafaela is a great Saint!

Father Baligora is wise.

God Bless Natalie for being a Good Servant.

Oh, what Great Faith!

We are just passing through this world. This Valley of Tears.

God Bless.

[pedelcosa]

I am delighted to learn see this film, there are at least couple apparitions that I am aware off. This one and Zeitoun in Egypt (Zeitoun might not be fully acknowledge by the Vatian)

[Victortrotska]

I think one of the biggest teaching of Jesus is not to accept your suffering fate but to stand up for yourself, others, your beliefs even at the expense of your own life.

Not "taking it in silence".

[pedelcosa]

Yes, The Coptic Church is not under the authority of the Vatican. However, that was not what I was hinting at. The issue at hand is whether the apparition is genuine or not, let us not forget that the fallen angel, can appear as an "angel of light", as indicated in Holy Scripture. I like you choice of word "phenomena", the phenomenas is unquestionable, what it truly was, its another issue, one that I am not fully confident that humans can fully comphrehend

[StarAcrux]

It was a Coptic Church in Zeitoun -- the Vatican has no authority over the Coptic church to approve or disapprove their phenomena.

There is so much physical evidence and so many witnesses of the many Zeitoun apparitions it would be difficult --and dishonest-- to disapprove them.