{"id":8345,"date":"2018-04-04T08:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2018-04-04T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:28:20","slug":"busiga-administration-receives-hundreds-of-eusebie-followers-from-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/busiga-administration-receives-hundreds-of-eusebie-followers-from-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Busiga administration receives hundreds of Eus\u00e9bie followers from Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 followers of Eus\u00e9bie Ngendakumana have spent the night at Mparamirundi communal lyc\u00e9e in Busiga commune of Ngozi Northern Province. They arrived yesterday evening after crossing the northern Kanyaru border post. They say they are happy to be back home and hope that they won\u2019t be persecuted because of their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8347\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8347\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Adeptes-Zebiya-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Eus\u00e9bie follower reading a Bible\" width=\"494\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Adeptes-Zebiya-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Adeptes-Zebiya-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Adeptes-Zebiya-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Adeptes-Zebiya.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eus\u00e9bie follower reading a Bible<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to be back home. When I crossed Kanyaru border, I felt joy\u201d said one of the repatriated followers of \u201cthe prophetess\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They say they will continue to believe in Eus\u00e9bie prophecy. \u201cWe had not left our belief in Congo or Rwanda. I still believe in Eusebie prophecies. \u201cI wish I could spend a whole week in Businde praying.<\/p>\n<p>In this area, I feel safe,\u201d said one Eus\u00e9bie follower.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Nahimana, Busiga commune administrator says those people are being taken back to their homes either by relatives or local administration. \u201cThe number is decreasing. Some people come and pick their relatives. Governors of provinces have also sent vehicles to pick the natives of their provinces. All of them have to be sent in their respective families,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00e9rence Ntahiraja, spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, says the later has received 2499 Eus\u00e9bie followers while the expected number was 2511. \u201cThey are our brothers and sisters. They agreed that they will abide by the country\u2019s laws and the catholic religion\u2019s rules. As for the 12 that we have not yet seen, we will ask their fellows where they are,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Those Eus\u00e9bie followers fled the country in September 2015 saying they were persecuted because of their religious beliefs. They first arrived in Kamanyola where they stayed till March 7, 2018. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/kamanyola-burundian-asylum-seekers-expect-to-have-secure-place-in-rwanda\/\" target=\"_blank\">They later moved to Rwanda<\/a> where they were repatriated from since this Sunday1, April 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 followers of Eus\u00e9bie Ngendakumana have spent the night at Mparamirundi communal lyc\u00e9e in Busiga commune of Ngozi Northern Province. They arrived yesterday evening after crossing the northern Kanyaru border post. They say they are happy to be back home and hope that they won\u2019t be persecuted because of their religious beliefs. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[1299,1358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8348,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions\/8348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}