Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

A community portal about Desmond Tutu with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was... [more]

A community portal about Desmond Tutu with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was elected and ordained the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. He is also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism.

 
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GENESEE COUNTY — Nontombi Naomi Tutu grew up a black woman in apartheid South Africa and watched her famous father fight so hard for racial equality, he earned the title “South Africa’s moral conscience.”  
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Dolly Parton will discuss her faith on a BBC show in the runup to Christmas. Photograph: Peter Morrison/AP Even though his modus operandi is acknowledged to be fairly unfathomable at the best of tim...  
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From the PA newswire:Tony Blair, Dolly Parton and Archbishop Desmond Tutu will discuss how their faith and beliefs have shaped their lives in a new flagship BBC religious programme hosted by Fern Britton.That sounds like something Paul Merton would come up with as an example of 'the most unbelievable programme lineup going'.Maybe it's the fact that everytime I think of Desmond Tutu I imagine him in a tutu which adds the je ne sais quoi to the...  
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Photo via Flickr The people at 350.org continue to amaze with their organizing and advocacy for climate action. Their latest triumph is getting Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican archbishop of South Africa, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, to endorse a target of 350 parts per million of CO2--the number many scientists say is a safe level. In a widely circulated opinion editorial, Tutu said, "In South Africa, we showed that if we act on the...  
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