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...father was from western Kenya and who has relatives near the city of Kisumu, the scene of some of the worst violence. Obama recorded a message, aired on the Voice of America, calling for calm. On Jan. 3, the day of the Iowa caucuses, he spoke with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who had flown to Nairobi, the capital, to see if he could negotiate a peace. In the days since his Iowa victory, Obama has had near daily conversations with the U.S. ambassador in Nairobi, Michael Ranneberger, or with Kenya's opposition leader, Raila Odinga. Obama was trying...
South African archbishop Desmond Tutu arrived in Nairobi overnight after being dispatched by Nelson Mandela's high-profile mediation group The Elders. However, Tutu's efforts to broker a compromise between the two sides had little immediate success. While he met Odinga, Tutu told a press conference he was unable to make an appointment with Kibaki. "This is a country that has been held up as a model of stability," said Tutu. "This picture has been shattered. This is not the Kenya that we know...
...Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of South Africa's most powerful moral voices, weighed in on Friday in an interview with the Mail & Guardian newspaper, in which he expressed distaste for the bitter personal rivalry between Mbeki and Zuma. "Why are we only concentrating on those two only?" he asked. "I have a deep sense of unease. The nation is in distress and needs a political leader who cares for them and makes them feel as though they matter...
...amazed that your long article managed to avoid any mention of religion's role in support of morality. On that subject, a comment by former auxiliary Archbishop of Sydney Michael Sheehan is apt: "It may be objected that in many countries today large sections of the population either deny or ignore the existence of God and yet are well-behaved. We reply that these are people whose good habits have been derived from believing parents or from other Christian influences; that the momentum of Christianity by which they are now being carried along will inevitably spend itself in this...
...send armies to war, to rule every aspect of our lives, to tell us what to wear, what to think, what to read--when religion gets hold of that, watch out! Because trouble will ensue." Pullman has even received warm praise from members of the clergy, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his exploration of spiritual issues. "I suppose if you are interested in religious questions, that makes you religious," Pullman muses. "I am. What I am not is a believer in the sorts of gods that seem to be on offer from the various major religions...