A UN tribunal has extended the sentence of a priest to life in prison after upholding his war crimes conviction for ordering militiamen to burn and bulldoze a church with 1,500 people inside during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

A Catholic priest was today convicted of participating in Rwanda's 1994 genocide by ordering militiamen to set fire to a church and then bulldoze it while 2,000 people were huddled inside seeking safety.

THE landmark trial of a Rwandan Catholic priest accused of supervising the massacre of 2,000 of his Tutsi parishioners during the central African country’s 1994 genocide opened in his absence.

A Rwandan priest who has been accused over the 1994 Rwanda genocide is ready to face his accusers.