The world has lost a champion for civil rights. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa died Sunday. He was 90 and had been battling prostate cancer since the late 1990s. Teresa Barnes, the Director ...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric whose good humor, inspiring message and conscientious work for civil and human rights made him a revered leader during the ...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu died today in Cape Town, South Africa. He was 90 years old. Tutu was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 and had been hospitalized several times in recent years. The ...
Rev. Mpho Tutu van Furth, an Episcopal priest who is married to a woman, said the funeral of her godfather was moved to his garden to allow her to participate. By Isabella Kwai Desmond M. Tutu, a ...
1954-1957 – Teaches school. He resigns in protest of government restrictions on education for black children. 1961 – Is ordained an Anglican priest. 1975 – Becomes the first black appointed Anglican ...
*The late Desmond Tutu will undergo aquamation instead of cremation following his death late last month. As reported by The Blast, his body will undergo aquamation, an environmentally friendly method ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu returned home on Tuesday after a weeklong hospital stay to treat a “stubborn infection” and is under doctors’ orders to rest, his South African ...
CAPE TOWN, Oct 7 (Reuters) – South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu could have chosen practically any car in the world when billionaire Warren Buffett offered to buy him a vehicle. But in ...
Other Facts:Sometimes referred to as "the Arch." Chaired South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Timeline:1954-1957 - Teaches school, and resigns in protest of government ...