"The church was a direct participant in the genocide. Rather than a passive mirror reflecting tensions, the Church was more of an epicenter radiating tensions.

...priests were also divided between those who were targeted in the killings and those who led or facilitated the killings..."Everyone had to participate. To prove that you weren't RPF, you had to walk around with a club. Being a pastor was not an excuse."

In all, 105 priests and 120 nuns, "at least a quarter of the clergy," are believed to have been killed. But priests were not only among those killed, they were also among the killers. Investigators with the UN Center for Human Rights claimed "strong evidence" that "about a dozen priests actually killed." Others were accused of "supervising gangs of young killers."

...the figures were similar for the Protestant churches."