KAYANZA January 18th (ABP) – The President of the Republic of Burundi, Mr. Evariste Ndayishimiye, in the company of his wife, shared the Sunday prayer with the Christians of Gasenyi parish, located in Rango commune of Kayanza province (North). After the Mass, the Head of State went to the headquarters of the commune, where he granted sheets to 158 households of internally displaced people, from the four sites scattered in this commune.
Also present at this Mass were the Minister of the Environment, Agriculture and Livestock, Mr. Déo Guide Rurema, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of the Interior, Community Development and Public Security and other senior executives native to Kayanza province, a check on the site by ABP has revealed.
In his homily focusing on the Gospel of Saint John, a gospel speaking of the wedding at Cana, the bishop of the diocese of Ngozi, Mgr Georges Bizimana asked Christians to implore the Virgin Mary to intercede for them with of Jesus Christ.
He further urged them to have faith in Jesus Christ because he can change and purify them as he did at the wedding at Cana where he changed water into wine.
Bishop Bizimana also invited the Christians of the Gasenyi parish to work as the servants of the wedding of Cana did because, according to the Bible, “He who does not work, let him not eat either”.
In his address of greeting to the Christians of the Gasenyi parish, Mr. Ndayishimiye warmly thanked the Christians for the way they obey their leaders and the way they never stop praying for the Burundian Head of State.
He thus recommended them to pray for those who led the country in the past, who unfortunately did not concern themselves with the population which, consequently, led the country to the abyss.
He asked the people of Rango to do battle with the unhappy past that characterized the country and to build a new Burundi to avoid being entangled by the unhappy past that Burundi has known.
At the end of the Mass, the Burundi Head of State, along with his wife, went to the headquarters of the Rango commune, to proceed with the delivery of metal sheets to 158 households of internally displaced persons who are built houses, to regain their original villages.
There, Mr. Ndayishimiye praised their courage by indicating that they kept the promise of the fact that they had agreed to return because, according to him, no Burundian should be called a refugee in his own country.
As a thank you, the natives of Rango commune gave the President of the Republic two heifers, it is reported.