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 ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu died on December 26, 2021, at the age of 90. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, Tutu helped lead the struggle against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s and '80s and ...

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 ...

The process is the same as that which occurs naturally when a body is buried, though at an accelerated rate Digital News Writer, PEOPLE Human rights activist and anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond ...

The death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu spurred a week of mourning in his home country of South Africa, leading to an environmentally-friendly sendoff per his wishes. Family members and close friends of ...

Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams, illus. by A.G. Ford. Candlewick, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5229-6 When a group of white boys hurl racial epithets at young Desmond, he turns to his mentor, ...

Desmond Tutu, the anti-apartheid leader and Anglican archbishop emeritus, died last Sunday in Cape Town, South Africa. Despite his monumental status, he requested a humble sendoff in a pine coffin ...

CNN — Family members gathered to say their goodbyes to anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu at a private service at St. George's Cathedral on Sunday, where his ashes were interred in Cape Town and laid to ...

NPR's A Martinez talks to Rev. Michael Battle, director of the Desmond Tutu Center at General Theological Seminary in New York, about Tutu's legacy. The Nobel Peace Prize winner died over the weekend.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is still changing the world, even in death. As South Africa capped a week of mourning for Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Sunday, he was interred in a modest ceremony, his remains ...