On the basis of documentary evidence, this paper examines the position of the Missionaries of Africa, also known as White Fathers, in political and ethnic matters during the buildup to the genocide in Rwanda, the genocide itself, and the postgenocide period. It argues that the Missionaries of Africa responded to the genocide in different ways. Some, especially those who returned to Rwanda after 1994, recognised the errors done by the church and tried to restart their ministry on a new foundation. However, many, particularly in Belgium, the country from where half of them originated, adopted a more defensive attitude. They subscribed, explicitly or not, to the double genocide theory according to which the crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front equalled or even surpassed those of the Rwandan authorities and the militias during the genocide. On the whole, the General Council of the congregation in Rome reacted to the Rwandan situation in a nonpartisan manner.

在文献证据的基础上，本文考察了非洲传教士（也称为白人教父）在卢旺达种族灭绝、种族灭绝本身和种族灭绝后时期在政治和种族问题上的立场。它认为非洲传教士以不同的方式应对种族灭绝。一些人，尤其是 1994 年后返回卢旺达的人，认识到教会犯下的错误，并试图在新的基础上重新开始他们的事工。然而，许多人，尤其是其中一半人的发源国比利时，采取了更具防御性的态度。他们明确或不同意双重种族灭绝理论，根据该理论，卢旺达爱国阵线的罪行等于甚至超过种族灭绝期间卢旺达当局和民兵的罪行。