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Obama and Makgoba to visit Germany for 500th Reformation anniversary
President Barack Obama is coming to Germany for the launch of the Reformation Summer. That was announced today by the German Protestant Kirchentag (DEKT) and the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). On 25 May the former U.S. President and Chancellor Angela Merkel will engage in a conversation on the topic of "Being Involved in Democracy: Taking on Responsibility Locally and Globally". Kirchentag President Christina Aus der Au and Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, EKD Council chair, will moderate the discussion at the Brandenburg Gate. The event is being jointly sponsored and planned by the Kirchentag and the Obama Foundation.
Heinrich Bedford-Strohm invited President Obama in May 2016 to visit Germany for the Reformation anniversary. Bedford-Strohm: “President Barack Obama’s attending the Kirchentag in Berlin, which will ring in the Reformation Summer, underlines the international character of our 500th anniver
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Tutu among 16 world figures honoured by Obama
UCT honorary graduate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu received the US's highest civilian honour, its Presidential Medal of Freedom, from American President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, 12 August.
Obama praised Tutu for his unflinching devotion to his calling and the kamp for freedom in apartheid South Africa. "Later, when a free South Africa needed a heart big enough to forgive its sins, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was called to serve once more," Obama said.
In turn, Tutu dedicated his Medal to his fellow South Africans. "I am standing out only because millions of my compatriots are carrying me on their shoulders," he said in a statement.
Tutu was one of 16 international luminaries to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Recipients included microloan pionjär and Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, British forskare Stephen Hawking, former Irish president Mary Robinson, screen legend Sidney
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Ladies and Gentlemen, distinguished guests, it is an honour to be here this evening. Thank you for your invitation.
It is a privilege to contribute to critical debate around key issues within contemporary South Africa; and I am grateful to The Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust for all that it does in promoting such open discussion. And it is a particular privilege to receive this invitation when fundamental questions around our constitution, our democracy, are so much in the spotlight.
Now, if you invite an archbishop to speak, you must not be surprised if he begins by quoting the Bible.
‘Be Subject to the Governing Authority’
St Paul, in his letter to the Christians in Rome, instructed, ‘Let every person be subject to the governing authority’ (Rom 13:1). Given the nature of our past governing authority, this has not always been an easy verse to handle! But fortunately, any good Bible expositor knows the saying that ‘a text without