Word: bishops
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...funeral procession slowly made its way to the cemetery. There, amid more singing and chanting, Elizabeth Khumalo was buried, while in the distance, mounted security forces maintained their shadowy watch. By keeping order, they had done their job well. Even the bishop was pleased, and he told the colonel, "In trying to maintain unreasonable laws, you were reasonable and well behaved today, and I want to thank you for that...
Later Tutu was able to smile at his confrontation with Colonel Nel. "He saluted me," the bishop chuckled. "Twice." --By William Stewart/Daveyton
...Alban's Church, the seat of the Anglican diocese of Johannesburg, it was time for the morning prayer meeting. In the boardroom, the staff had assembled, about 20 men and women, black and white. At precisely 9 a.m. Bishop Desmond Tutu arrived. "Good morning, Baba (Father), " said members of the group. "A little more enthusiasm, please, " the bishop replied with a smile, and the group obliged. Then he pulled up a chair and began the day's lesson. It was drawn from Acts 21: 27-39, the story of Paul being taken into protective custody by Roman soldiers to shelter...
...Robinson and TransAfrica have undertaken another ambitious project: collecting a million signatures denouncing the Rev. Jerry Falwell's accommodating view of the South African government, to be presented next month in a "freedom letter" to the Nobel laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu. TransAfrica had garnered 200,000 signatures by last week, and 50 members of Congress have volunteered to collect at least 1,000 additional signatures each from their constituents...
...place at night, the time of maximum vulnerability. Said Father Augusto Aosorio, one of Armero's parish priests: "We knew the danger was there. But we just cheerfully got accustomed to it." Aosorio was extraordinarily lucky: only hours before the eruption, he had left town to meet with his bishop in Ibagu?...