1944–1994) were a married couple from Rwanda, who introduced the Catholic Charismatic Renewal and the Emmanuel Community to their country in 1990.

Daphrose [Daforoza] Mukasanga was a school teacher, born in the same village of Cyanika in the south of Rwanda as Cyprien.

[6] The independence of the Republic of Rwanda led to ethnic tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples.

Cyprien advised President Juvénal Habyarimana to stop the registration of ethnicity on identity cards.

[7][better source needed] The couple were killed, with six of their ten children, on 7 April 1994 - one day after the assassination of the president, which marked the start of the Rwandan genocide.

[9] In 2015 Cyprien and Daphrose Rugamba were declared "heroic in virtue," marking the start of the formal process towards their canonization as saints recognised by the Catholic Church.