Desmond Tutu: "Caring and compassion will prevail over evil and injustice"

"Evil, injustice, oppression, all of those awful things, they are not going to have the last word. Goodness, laughter, joy, caring, compassion, the things that you do and you help others do, those are going to prevail," said Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Geneva May 20.

The South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate was addressing ecumenical officers of churches from all over the world as well as staff from ecumenical organizations headquartered at Geneva's ecumenical centre.

Recalling the struggle against apartheid in his country, Tutu affirmed the empowerment felt by anti-apartheid activists when knowing that people all over the world were praying for them. "When you know someone is praying for you, in Alaska, by name, what chance does the apartheid government have?"

Tutu thanked the World Council of Churches (WCC) for its "costly solidarity" at the time of the anti-apartheid struggle. "We would not be free had not been for the steadfast support of the WCC, which cost the WCC a very big deal" he said. Read more...

Archbishop Tutu is set to address participants at the WACC’s global Congress 2008, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, October 6-10. The theme of the Congress is Communication is peace: Building viable communities.
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