{"id":12915,"date":"2021-12-27T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T15:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=12915"},"modified":"2021-12-27T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T05:07:26","slug":"desmond-tutu-whose-voice-helped-slay-apartheid-dies-at-90-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=12915","title":{"rendered":"“Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90”, The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

By <\/span>Marilyn Berger<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>

The archbishop, a powerful force for nonviolence in South Africa\u2019s anti-apartheid movement, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Desmond M. Tutu at Washington National Cathedral in 1984. The archbishop was a spellbinding preacher, assuring his parishioners of God\u2019s love while exhorting them to follow the path of nonviolence in their struggle.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Associated Press<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Desmond M. Tutu, the cleric who used his pulpit and spirited oratory to help bring down apartheid in South Africa and then became the leading advocate of peaceful reconciliation under Black majority rule, died on Sunday in Cape Town. He was 90.<\/p>\n

His death was confirmed by the office of South Africa\u2019s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who called the archbishop \u201ca leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cause of death was cancer, the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said, adding that Archbishop Tutu had died in a care facility. He was first diagnosed<\/a> with prostate cancer in 1997, and was hospitalized several times in the years since, amid recurring fears that the disease had spread.<\/p>\n

As leader of the South African Council of Churches and later as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop Tutu led the church to the forefront of Black South Africans\u2019 decades-long struggle for freedom. His voice was a powerful force for nonviolence in the anti-apartheid movement, earning him a Nobel Peace Prize in 1984<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n