Sentences with phrase «archbishop desmond»

In November, more than 70 faith leaders of various denominations, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, endorsed an interfaith call to action against fully autonomous weapons.

A Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2014) and former member of the United Nations Committee of eLeaders on Youth and ICT, he is a CyberStewards Fellow, Crans Montana Forum Fellow, Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, Our Common Future Fellow and Cordes Fellow.

The last successful petition candidate was Archbishop Desmond Tutu 20 years ago.

A decision by the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., to bar Archbishop Desmond Tutu from speaking on campus has drawn criticism from many corners of the globe — including the university's own law school.

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).

Notable participants in this bell - ringing initiative included Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu advocated for divestment during the anti-apartheid struggle and does so today.

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu argued at the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, a two - degree global mean temperature rise might result in Africa's temperature rising as much as 3.5 degrees — a potentially disastrous change.

Award recipients included Archbishop Desmond Tutu via a televised acceptance speech (International Environmental Leadership Award) which was presented to the legendary human rights advocate by Empire star Jussie Smollett.

Writing in the Guardian in April, Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged that «people of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change».

110 Million artisans, farmers, producers and supporters including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Eddie Izzard, Sigur Ros and many others have joined together to support BIG BANG!!

Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate (1976)- Ireland Betty Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate (1976)- Ireland Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Laureate (1980)- Argentina Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate (1984)- South Africa His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Laureate (1989)- Tibet Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Nobel Peace Laureate (1992)- Guatemala José Ramos - Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate (1996)- East Timor Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate (1997)- USA Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate (2003)- Iran

In other news, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has urged Uganda to reject its «Kill the Gays» bill, likening it to the apartheid Africa fought so long to reject, scientists have found homosexual behaviour in male animals makes them more attractive to female animals (okay, at least in fish), and Simon & Schuster have launched a new self - publishing arm brought to you by the Author Solutions crew — they who rip off would - be authors for thousands of dollars and take half of any sales that eventuate.

Award - winning author and education leader Alan M. Blankstein served for 25 years as president of the HOPE Foundation, which he founded and whose honorary chair is Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

A quote from Archbishop Desmond Tutu set the tone: «There comes a point when we need to stop just pulling people out of the river, we need to go upstream and find out why they are falling in.»

The Hangout video of the Dalai Lama chatting to Archbishop Desmond Tutu has now definitely entered the YouTube viral - video archives as a truly unforgettable moment.

«Change the language in the tribe, and you have changed the tribe itself... There's a word in the Bantu languages that [Archbishop Desmond] Tutu has used to help bring the entire country of South Africa together: ubuntu, meaning «Today I share with you because tomorrow you share with me.»»

Every time Forest Whitaker's hopeful, God - fearing Archbishop Desmond Tutu has a sit - down with Eric Bana's incarcerated, racist, death - squad assassin Piet Blomfeld, in lengthy, two - man scenes where they each pull out every emotion they can wring out, it's hard to shake the feeling this was done on a theater stage somewhere.

With Roland Joffe's «The Forgiven,» Whitaker adds the charismatic, wise Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the list, using the actor's contemplative and soft nature to recreate the events of post-apartheid South Africa, when Tutu was assigned with running South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

The Forgiven: Based on real events, and directed by Academy Award - nominee Roland Joffé, the film tells the story of Archbishop Desmond Tutu's meeting with a brutal murderer who is suddenly seeking redemption.

The Oscar - winning actor talks about playing Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the new film, «The Forgiven.»

When Archbishop Desmond Tutu (Forest Whitaker) is appointed to head a nationwide investigation, he's summoned to a maximum - security prison by a notorious murderer seeking clemency (Eric Bana).

Forest Whitaker stars as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who meets with a brutal criminal in a maximum security prison seeking redemption.

According to Variety, Whitaker will star as Archbishop Desmond Tutu in The Archbishop and the Antichrist, a fictionalised account of the anti-apartheid clergyman's meetings with a racist mass murderer, who will be played by Vince Vaughn.

In 2011, Harry wrote and directed Choice Point — Align Your Purposewww.choicepointmovement.com which includes interviews from Richard Branson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Dr Silia Elworthy, Jean Paul DeJoria, Jack Canfield, Barbara Marx Hubbord and Greg Braden.

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, «when I dehumanize you, I am inexorably dehumanizing myself.»

The list includes Archbishop Desmond Tutu (2009), Dr. Haroun Adamu (2010), then EU Ambassador to Nigeria Dr. David MacRae (2011), Dr. Robert A. Pastor (2012), veteran civil rights champion Ms. Charlayne Hunter - Gault (2013), Ambassador John Simon (2014), Colombian educator Vicky Colbert (2015), and Dr. Mustapha Abiodun Akinwunmi, a former commissioner for finance in Lagos State (2016).

Former Nobel laureates, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, are leading opposition to plans to give to the prize to the EU at an awards ceremony next Monday.

On Thursday, South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the leading figures in the anti-apartheid struggle, added his voice, saying: «If the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep.»

There he is, smiling his weird smile, alongside Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.

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).

Archbishop Desmond Connell interviewed, Irish Independent, September 19, 2000.

It is the God about whom Archbishop Desmond Tutu could, with exuberant tone and deep insight, testify:

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.

In London's Sunday Telegraph of April 27, cancer - stricken Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu remarked in an interview:

«Archbishop Desmond Tutu — A Revolutionary Priest or Man of Peace?»

It is against this background that our countryman, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has rightly argued that the church has to be concerned about the secular things such as politics and economics, education, medical aid, the rent and housing, food prices et cetera.

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his fellow signatories claim leaders can no longer «dismiss the voices of their constituency in a world where almost 2.5 billion people engage with social media.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called upon the king of Saudi Arabia to halt the executions of 14 young people for being involved in protests five years ago.

He called Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa «a phony.

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.

President Barack Obama congratulated Archbishop Desmond Tutu on his official retirement, praising him for the extensive list of accomplishments in his decades - long career.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, pictured here in Sudan in 2007, is visiting the region as conflict continues amid warring groups.

Editor's note: Archbishop Desmond Tutu is often described as South Africa's moral conscience and is a global champion for human rights.

Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Soweto on 8 May 8 1994, two days before Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black President

Johannesburg (CNN)- Miffed by a visa delay that led the Dalai Lama to cancel a trip to South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu lashed out at his government Tuesday, saying it had acted worse than apartheid regimes and had forgotten all that the nation stood for.

«When the General Synod rejected the previous proposals in November 2012, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, wrote to «pour some balm on (my) wounded heart».

Moreover, «the poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected» by environmental disturbances created by other human beings, especially the wealthy, as Archbishop Desmond Tutu claims.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu demonstrated the power of this in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which worked for the healing of the country.