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 South African National Military Veterans Association members pray outside the hospital where Nelson Mandela is being treated.
July 1st, 2013
12:26 PM ET
Prayers for Mandela: Healing or a`peaceful end'?By Jeffrey Weiss, special to CNN (CNN) - Nelson Mandela belongs to the ages whether he lives another hour, day or decade. But in what may well be his final days, he’s focusing attention on a modern and yet very old question: When medical treatment can extend life interminably, what's the right thing to ask of doctors - or of the Almighty? Few outside Mandela’s inner circle know the South African icon’s exact condition and treatment. Family members said last week that he had stopped speaking but was responding to voices. Officials have said he’s battling a lung infection, but they haven’t released much information beyond that. What we do know is how Mandela’s countrymen have responded to what could be his last illness. More often than not, that response has included public prayer, vigils and hymns.
April 4th, 2013
12:51 AM ET
Tutu wins Templeton PrizeBy the CNN Wire Staff The Templeton Prize "honors a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension, whether through insight, discovery, or practical works," the John Templeton Foundation says on its website. Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the son of a schoolteacher and a domestic servant, was ordained a priest in 1961.
October 4th, 2011
01:01 PM ET
Dalai Lama scraps trip to South Africa; Tutu lashes outJohannesburg (CNN) - Miffed by a visa delay that led the Dalai Lama to cancel a trip to South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu lashed out at his government Tuesday, saying it had acted worse than apartheid regimes and had forgotten all that the nation stood for. "When we used to apply for passports under the apartheid government, we never knew until the last moment what their decision was," Tutu said at a news conference. "Our government is worse than the apartheid government because at least you were expecting it from the apartheid government. "I have to say that I can't believe this. I really can't believe this," Tutu said. "You have to wake me up and tell me this is actually happening here." The Dalai Lama scrapped his planned trip to South Africa this week after the nation failed to issue him a visa in time, his spokesman said. Read the full story
November 4th, 2010
04:57 PM ET
My Take: Seeking truth and reconciliation in Cape Town
By Don Golden, Special to CNN The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization was held in Cape Town a few weeks ago. I was privileged to join this collaboration of 4,000 leaders from 200 countries to engage the great causes of our time. As a representative of World Relief, a venerable Evangelical aid organization, I was eager to learn the priorities of global Evangelicals at the beginning of a new millennium of ministry. Day one was devoted to truth – “making the case for the truth of Christ in a pluralistic, globalized world”. The job fell to Os Guinness, the Oxford heavy weight. Offering six purposes for elevating truth as our highest priority, Guinness declared that honoring God, knowing God, empowering human enterprise, providing a gospel foundation, combating repression and transformation in Christ – all depended on a high view of objective truth.
July 28th, 2010
01:30 PM ET
CNN Exclusive: South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu talks retirement
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A week after announcing plans to retire from public life, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu–who chaired his country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of apartheid–talks exclusively to CNN International's Connect the World. |
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