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Despite the chaos, mourners steadily converged on Soweto's St. Paul's Church, where the police two weeks ago opened fire on crowds of barricaded youths during the bloody rent strike. As tensions rose last Thursday, Archbishop Desmond Tutu telephoned the church and urged his religious colleagues to call off the planned funeral and have everyone return home peacefully. Bishop Simeon Nkoane promptly conveyed Tutu's message to the people in the streets...
...Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace-prizewinning bishop of Johannesburg, last week bid an emotional goodbye to his diocese. But before taking over as Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Anglican Church for all of southern Africa, he conducted a final service at St. Paul's Church in the black township of Soweto. In his farewell sermon, Tutu declared, "Despite all that the powers of the world may do, we are going to be free...
STAFF WRITERS: Janice Castro, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Lloyd Garrison, Pico Iyer, Stephen Koepp, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., Sara C. Medina, Jamie Murphy, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Richard Stengel, Susan Tifft, Amy Wilentz, Richard Zoglin...
...cancellation came after it became public that Black South African leaders, including Nobel laureate Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, never were consulted about the program's value. Tutu and the others believed the initiative would harm South Africa's Black majority...
...proposal came under attack from prominent Black leaders like Bishop Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Allen Boesak. Much of the criticism for the program centered on the man Bok placed in charge of it, Steiner, his closest friend in the administration...