Category - tutu

Time for a just peace in Israel-Palestine

Simon Barrow — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:01:23 +0100

The religion and society think tank Ekklesia is backing an independent initiative aimed at marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel with a call from senior Christian lead

Food arrives in Kenya as Tutu continues to press reconciliation

staff writers — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:35:31 +0000

A convoy of trucks carrying 666 tonnes of food and vegetable oil to alleviate the humanitarian crisis resulting from post-election political violence The African Union and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu are pushing for a settlement.

Tutu rocks the web for AIDS in world record attempt

staff writers — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:58:04 +0100

The Anthem for AIDS campaign featuring desmond Tutu aims to set a Guinness World Record for the first charity single to achieve one million sales by download only.

Tutu says forgive, don't retaliate, on 9/11 anniversary

Episcopal News Service — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:06:50 +0100

On the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks, Desmond M. Tutu, Anglican Archbishop emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa delivered a message of forgiveness to those gathered at the Chapel of the Good Shepherd on the campus of General Theological Seminary (GTS) in New York City.

Global campaign backs orphan aid and free primary education

staff writers — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:44:13 +0100

Children in developing countries need free primary education, and the US should put hard cash into support for orphans globally - says a new campaign being backed by Mpho Tutu.

Tutu dedicates peace prize to South Africa, Darfur and Burma

staff writers — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:29:54 +0000

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has dedicated the receipt of India's highest international honour, the Gandhi Peace Prize, to "the people of South Africa, to the freedom of Darfur and to Aung Sans Suu Kyi", the Burmese leader held under house arrest - writes Anto Akkara from Thrissur, India, for Ecumenical News International(ENI).

Discrimination against gay people is like apartheid, says Tutu

staff writers — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:37:10 +0000

Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has warned that an unhealthy obsession with homosexuality means African churches risk ignoring real problems facing the continent ‚Ä' and has added that the mistreatment of lesbian gay people is like apartheid.

Tutu says that the war against terror cannot be won by force

staff writers — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:56:47 +0000

The war against terror in the world will "never" be won by force and injustice, and will remain a problem "as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate," like dehumanizing poverty, disease and ignorance, Nobel laureate and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has told participants at the 2007 World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Tutu says men have messed up the world and women hold the key

staff writers — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:35:04 +0000

Speaking at the grassroots World Social Forum, gathered in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa has urged women to launch a nonviolent social revolution to rectify all the the world problems created by men.

Archbishop Tutu laments Israeli block on his fact-finding mission

staff writers — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

South African Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says it is distressing that Israel blocked a planned mission by him and British professor Christine Chinkin to investigate the killing of 19 Palestinian civilians by Israeli shells - writes Peter Kenny for Ecumenical News International.