LONDON (Reuters) - Desmond Tutu, the subject of this month's exclusive Reuters Newsmaker event in London, is one of the towering figures of 20th century history, having played a central role in the ...

Desmond Tutu lived astride one of Christianity’s great failures—and one of its great successes. At the pinnacle of White disdain for South Africa’s original residents, the country’s government ...

(RNS) — While writing my biography of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, I sought to answer whether his work made him a saint or a politician. This may seem a curious question to those who know Tutu as a cleric ...

South African Bishop Desmond Tutu gestures during remarks denouncing his country’s apartheid policy of racial separation in New Orleans, Sept. 7, 1982. (Jack Thornell / Associated Press) I first met ...

Tutu, who led South Africa's post-apartheid reconciliation, died on Sunday. LONDON -- South Africa's Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric whose good humor, inspiring message and conscientious work for civil and human rights made him a revered leader during the ...

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Desmond Tutu’s Funeral Is Limited to 100 People Church leaders in South Africa urged mourners to attend services for Desmond M. Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town, in their local ...