Church accused of Moscow ties expelled from two parishes in western Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters A Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox church accused of ties with Russia was expelled from the premises of two places of worship on Wednesday amid rising public anger against the organisation 14 months into Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian police officers stand next to St George’s Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, […]
Tutu remains interred amid call to rename Cape Town airport
Cape Town, South Africa AP The remains of Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, were interred early Sunday during a private family service at the city’s Anglican cathedral. Archbishop Thabo Makgoba laid a small box containing Tutu’s remains to rest in the floor in front of the high altar […]
Farewell to “our national conscience” at funeral of South Africa’s Tutu
Cape Town, South AfricaReuters President Cyril Ramaphosa lauded the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “our moral compass and national conscience” as South Africa bade farewell at a state funeral on Saturday to a hero of the struggle against apartheid. “Our departed father was a crusader in the struggle for freedom, for justice, for equality and […]
Tears for Tutu, giant of struggle and neighbour who brought round groceries
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters Mourners held a candlelight prayer ceremony outside the Soweto home of late Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Wednesday, weeping over the memory not only of a world-renowned lion of the anti-apartheid movement but of a kind and loyal neighbour. Tutu, who died at 90 on Sunday, lived for a while on the same […]
Cathedral bells to toll daily for South African struggle hero Tutu
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters The bells of Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral will toll for 10 minutes a day every day at noon until Friday in honour of South African anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on Sunday aged 90. Nobel prize winner Tutu, who preached against the tyranny of the white minority and was […]