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desmond tutu

January 5, 2009

Churches maintain pressure on Mugabe in Zimbabwe

Anglican bishops and other church leaders in Southern African have been maintaining pressure on dictator Robert Mugabe over the past week, calling for action against the Zimbabwean president.
December 24, 2008

Desmond Tutu speaks of the 'shame' of Mugabe's Zimbabwe

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has accused South Africa of losing the moral high ground of its anti-apartheid years by failing to stand up to Zimbabwe's dictatorial president Robert Mugabe.
October 27, 2008

South Africa facing a major poverty crisis, says former archbishop

Former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Njongonkulu Ndungane, who succeeded Desmond Tutu, says that the worsening conditions of poverty in many parts of South Africa are reaching crisis proportions.
October 13, 2008

Tutu commends Christian communicators in justice struggle

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has commended Christian communicators for support that helped liberate his country from minority white rule, and has appealed for their continued assistance in the post-apartheid era.
September 9, 2008

Embrace Bible's message for the poor, Tutu tells Evangelicals

'The Bible has revolutionary power to free the poor', Archbishop Desmond Tutu told a conference of UK Christians and church leaders in London at the weekend.
July 26, 2008

Tutu leads Southern African reconciliation move after attacks

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has led pleas for repentance, reconciliation and forgiveness following outbreaks of xenophobic attacks by some South Africans on refugees coming from Zimbabwe and elsewhere in Africa.
July 18, 2008

Prisoner who became South African president celebrates 90 years

Nelson Mandela, who played a crucial role in ending apartheid in South Africa, is 90 today. After a series of public appearances around the world over the past few weeks, he will spending the day at home with his family.
July 15, 2008

Tutu renews his appeal to Anglicans to end their factionalism

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has renewed his call for global Anglican leaders to focus on the gospel as a message of hope and healing for the world, and to move beyond factional in-fighting as they gather in Lambeth.
July 4, 2008

WCC spells out the international action needed on Zimbabwe

After "what can be described as a façade election", the World Council of Churches has called for global action and the protection of Zimbabweans "against increased and continued violence".
June 29, 2008

Tutu calls on African Union not to recognise Mugabe

Robert Mugabe waved a Bible and made an oath of allegiance before God to Zimbabwe as he was sworn in as president following an election widely dismissed as meaningless. But anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Tutu says he must go.