Sentences with phrase «african archbishop»

Witness the open letter that South African Archbishop and Nobel Prize Winner Desmond Tutu sent on December 15, after a walkout by the unified African bloc led to a sudden halt in the official negotiations.

In an open letter that he posted on Facebook to his fellow Nobel prize winner, the 85 - year - old South African archbishop said,

A week after announcing plans to retire from public life, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu — who chaired his country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of apartheid — talks exclusively to CNN International's Connect the World.

South African Archbishop Thabo Makgoba calls for prayer after Oscar Pistorius murder conviction

CNN: Desmond Tutu says Blair, Bush should be «made to answer» for Iraq South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Sunday that Tony Blair and George W. Bush should be «made to answer» at the International Criminal Court for their actions around the Iraq war.

Not exact matches

South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the chair of that country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, stands as the most famous embodiment of this concept.

keep in mind that this is the home of both the forward thinking (Nobel Prize winning Archbishop Tutu) as well as the African Bishops who stone gays and women as «God work» while maintaining plural marriages and cozying up to African dictatorswith the blood of literaly millions of thier own flock on thier hands (Uganda, Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe)

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he was left more shocked by the plight of Britain's hunger - stricken poor than the suffering in African refugee camps.

Originally known as the One Mind Temple, the church embraced all religions in worshiping Coltrane as a god, but in 1980 King took steps to sorting out the doctrine of the church by going to Chicago to study under Archbishop G.D. Hinkson of the African Orthodox Church, which is affiliated with the Eastern Catholic Church.

A statement from the office of the South African emeritus archbishop says he is «is deeply disappointed by allegations of immorality and possible criminality».

One of my favorite quotes is by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a man who knew of the coexistence of joy and pain all too well as he encouraged South Africans in their struggle for human rights.

Nelson Mandela, the legendary figure in the history of South African freedom struggle wrote about Archbishop Desmond Tutu, «here was a man who inspired an entire nation with his words and his courage, who had revived the people's hope during the darkest of times» (Long Walk to Freedom p. 678).

«The important thing is all of us on that one day again getting together and just enjoying the fact of being South Africans,» said the Archbishop.

Archbishop Duncan - Williams also warned that if the vicious cycle is not ended anytime soon so that the private sector could be allowed to flourish to provide enough job opportunities for the hordes of students who come out of school at different levels, then an African version of the Arab Spring was imminent.

He said there is a «vicious cycle» pervasive in Ghana and some other African countries where the governments in power target and destroy businesses as well as wealth created by private businesspeople during the tenure of the immediate - past predecessor - regimes, a situation, Archbishop Duncan - Williams believes, is causing Ghana not to be able to create ample job opportunities in the private sector to absorb unemployed youth.

During apartheid, the effervescent Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town was threatened, imprisoned, and banned from foreign travel, but he never stopped criticising the South African government.

Buhari had on Wednesday in London told Archbishop Justin Welby that the farmers / herdsmen clashes were made worse by the influx of armed gunmen from the Sahel region in Nigeria and other parts of West African sub-region.

Misol credits opposition from Nobelist Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, in an 11 June statement, for helping to change the attitude of several African countries.

The workshop was remarkable both because it was only the second joint meeting of the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences and because of the range of participants: from Archbishop Roland Minnerath (of Dijon, France) to the 96 - year - old Scripps Institution oceanographer Walter Munk to Paulus Zulu, a South African sociologist.

The EU tried to label tar sands oil as more carbon - intensive than other crude sources, and a public message from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other African leaders accuse Canada of contributing to famine and drought (studies have shown tar sands are likely to devastate agriculture in Africa).