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Details: Fr Michael Lapsley, the Director of the Institute for Healing of Memories in Cape Town, South Africa, has announced his return to the Grand Duchy; he will lead a meeting at the Salle St Ignace (23 Ave Gaston Diderich in Luxembourg-Belair) on 6 September 2016 at 19:30.
He will talk about his worldwide mission aimed at offering comfort and a way out for people bearing the scars of violence caused by oppressive regimes, wars or situations of discrimination. He will also invite anyone interested to take part in a workshop which he will lead on 16 and 17 September.
The event will be held in English and will have simultaneous translation in both French and Arabic.
Born in New Zealand in 1949, Michael Lapsley went to South Africa aged 24 as an Anglican priest to study and discovered the realities of apartheid. Expelled in 1976 he went to Lesotho. In 1990, shortly after the freeing of Nelson Mandela from prison, Fr Lapsley lost both hands and an eye in an attack in a parcel bomb in Zimbabwe. He founded the Institute for Healing ofMemories in Cape Town in 1998, a place where people could meet and share, a place to help heal the emotional, psychological and spiritual wounds of violence. In this context, he has also organised workshops to help people deal with their past in many countries around the world: in the US, Colombia, Australia, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Uganda, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, France, Spain. His memoir, entitled "Redeeming the Past", has been published in a dozen languages and will come out in Arabic in 2017.
Venue: Salle St Ignace (23 Ave Gaston Diderich in Luxembourg-Belair)
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URL: For further information, email: healing.memories.luxembourg@gmail.com or tel: 621-315155.
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