Word: anglicans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whites-only national election. A jubilant State President P.W. Botha, whose party increased its seats in Parliament, went on national television after declaring victory and said, "The outside world must accept that the white electorate is here to stay and has a special duty in South Africa." To Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the country's best-known blacks, the election carried a very different lesson. Said the 1984 Nobel Peace laureate: "We have entered the darkest age in the history of our country...
With just over a month to go, the front runners, not surprisingly, are Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist leader who has been imprisoned since 1962, and Oliver Tambo, the exiled head of the outlawed African National Congress. Nobel-prizewinning Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs a close third. Even some whites received approving nods, from the opposition politicians Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Helen Suzman to Communist Party Chief Joe Slovo, the sole white member of the ANC executive committee. But most surprising of all, State President P.W. Botha turned up in 14th place...
...least 26 foreigners, including Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite, are also believed held by Shiite Moslem extremists...
...park, read Emerson in the library, and discussed religion. The latter soon began to fascinate him; he would rap until deep in the night about God and salvation. In the end, I got sick of it and decided it was all a bunch of bull. Terry joined the Anglican Church...
...slate of pro-divestment candidates running for the Board of Overseers received a boost yesterday when Anglican Archbishop of Capetown Desmond M. Tutu endorsed their campaign, the slate's sponsors announced last week...