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Chris Rwakasisi: The power of forgiveness and reconciliation [Around Uganda]

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In this episode of Around Uganda, we bring you words of reconciliation from Chris Rwakasisi, once a powerful government minister, later a condemned prisoner, and now a man reborn through grace and forgiveness.
Rwakasisi served as Minister of State for Security under President Milton Obote in the early 1980s. Following the 1986 change of government, he was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death. For over two decades, he lived behind bars, until a presidential pardon in 2009 offered him freedom.
At the 2025 National Prayer Breakfast, Rwakasisi shared a soul-stirring testimony; one of pain, repentance, and divine reconciliation.
In his own words, he speaks to the power of spiritual transformation and what it means to truly forgive and be forgiven.