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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...
...much of the world, Tutu, 54, symbolizes the battle against apartheid. From his new position, he will be the spiritual leader of 1.3 million South Africans, both black and white, and 700,000 more Anglicans in neighboring Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho. With that larger pulpit, he is likely to become even more controversial...
...Tutu formally became Archbishop of Cape Town last week in a private ceremony. Then about 1,350 people attended last Sunday's public enthronement. In addition to church leaders from 13 countries, Tutu invited American politicians, show-business figures and other notables, ranging from Senator Edward Kennedy and Coretta Scott King to Bill Cosby. Most were unable to attend, but when the government accused Tutu of trying to turn the enthronement into a media extravaganza, he replied, "I will not be told by anybody whom I may invite. They are my friends...
...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...