Desmond Tutu
Episcopalians battle over aid to Israel
By Solange De Santis — January 20, 2013
(RNS) A group of prominent Episcopalians is criticizing their church's stand on Israel, urging it to join 15 other denominations who call for an accounting of U.S. aid to Israel. By Solange De Santis.
“You can’t walk on that side of the street”: Institutional Israeli Segregation
By Omid Safi — January 6, 2013
We in America saw the moral shortcoming of segregated lunch counters, segregated buses and segregated schools.
In Israel, there are still segregated roads, segregated housing, segregated sidewalks, segregated...
Tutu urges Uganda to drop bid to jail gays and lesbians
By Fredrick Nzwili — December 5, 2012
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday (Dec. 4) urged Uganda to scrap a controversial draft law that would send gays and lesbians to jail and, some say, put them at risk of the death penalty. By Fredrick Nzwili.
Pro-Tutu petitions flood Gonzaga
By Tracy Simmons — April 23, 2012
(RNS) After nearly 700 people tried to push Gonzaga University to rescind its commencement speaker's invitation to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, supporters of the anti-apartheid hero responded with 11,000 signatures of their own. By Tracy Simmons.
Alumni don’t want Desmond Tutu to speak at Gonzaga
By Tracy Simmons — April 13, 2012
SPOKANE, Wash. (RNS) A group of alumni at Gonzaga University is pressing the school to rescind an invitation to Archbishop Desmond Tutu as commencement speaker, saying the anti-apartheid activist supports abortion and homosexuality. By Tracy Simmons.
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