TUTU TO RESIGN LEADERSHIP POST
Author: By Diego Ribadeneira, Globe Staff
Date: Saturday, September 9, 1995
Page: 17
Section: NATIONAL/FOREIGN
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Prize-winning South African cleric
considered a hero of the fight to eradicate apartheid, will retire in June as
leader of South Africa's Anglican churches.
Tutu's worldwide championing of human rights along with his forceful,
nonviolent campaign to tear down apartheid made him one of the best-known
religious figures of the past two decades.
Following his retirement next year, Tutu, 64, plans to spend a year on
sabbatical leave at Emory University in Atlanta.
TRIP TO ISRAEL SET FOR GAYS, LESBIANS
The United Jewish Appeal has scheduled its first trip to Israel
specifically for gay and lesbian Jews.
Although traditional Jewish religious law disapproves of homosexuality, the
United Jewish Appeal, which raises money from American Jews, is a largely
secular body that tries to appeal to all segments of the Jewish community.
So far about 30 people have signed up for the trip, scheduled for Dec.
18-27 at a cost of $2,500 per person, including airfare from New York. The
United Jewish Appeal recently sponsored its first trip for interfaith couples.
DATES: Today at 7 p.m., St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 838 Massachusetts
Ave., Cambridge, a concert by the senior orchestra of St. Peter's Collegiate
School of Wolverhampton, England (547-7788).
- Today, 8:30 p.m.-midnight, Congregation B'nai B'rith, 201 Central St.,
Somerville, a country dance to benefit Respond, services for battered women
and their children (625-0333).
- Tomorrow, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Cornerstone Baptist Church, 54 Brighton St.,
Belmont, a day of song, food and message with acclaimed Christian musicians,
the Garlocks (489-2498).
- Tomorrow, 10 a.m, Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, 1555
Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, John Reiger will discuss "Encounters with
Jesus: The Syrophoenician Woman." (354-0837).
- Tomorrow, 1 p.m., at Lombardo's Conference Center, Exit 5A, Route 128,
Randolph, speech by Rev. Frank Pavone, director of Priests for Life, a
national group promoting the sanctity of life (762-9554).
- Tomorrow, 4 p.m., Our Lady Help of Christians Church, 573 Washington St.,
Newton, Cardinal Bernard Law will preside at a special Mass celebrating ethnic
diversity (482-4324).
- Tomorrow, 4 p.m.-6 p.m., 445 Central St., Stoughton, Jewish Family and
Children's Service of Greater Boston and Striar Jewish Community Center will
offer a program for Jewish Holocaust survivors (558-1278).
- Tomorrow, 5 p.m.-7 p.m., The Boston Synagogue, 55 Martha Road, Boston,
will host an open house (523-0453).
- Tomorrow, 7 p.m., The Boston Synagogue will sponsor an art auction,
featuring works by Chagall, Picasso and Rockwell.
- Tomorrow and continuing for the next five Sundays, the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations will offer Yours, Mine and Ours, a workshop for
interfaith couples (449-0404).
- Wednesday, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m., at Temple Sinai, 50 Sewall Ave., Brookline,
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Boston will sponsor a Rosh
Hashonah celebration for Jews with mental illness (227-6641).
- Sunday, Sept. 17, 3 p.m, St. Francis of Assisi Church, 856 Washington
St., Braintree, a memorial liturgy for families who have lost a baby through
miscarriage, stillbirth, in infancy or in childhood. (843-1332).
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