Amahoro and God : peace through Christianity and ritual in Burundi

This study focuses on ritual and Christianity\u27s ability to transform people\u27s perceptions of each other. In Burundi, the Evangelical Friends church uses ritual to break down the animosities between the country\u27s two main ethnic communities, Hutu and Tutsi, and turn them into one group based on a love of God and others. The church succeeds in doing this through a program called Healing and Rebuilding Our Communities (HROC) and its Sunday gatherings. This study concludes that reconciliation is happening at a communal level, thanks in most part to Christian ritual