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SAPC — NEWSROOMTutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage
Offers Time Apart for Renewal September 2006—The Rev. Mpho Tutu, daughter of Nobel Peace Prize winner (retired) Archbishop Desmond Tutu, of Cape Town, South Africa, said she founded the Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage to help people on their pilgrimages. "The reason I offer pilgrimages to people," said Tutu, "particularly those who are skilled and giving, is that sometimes there is a particular grace to be on the receiving end." Speaking at the Sept. 18 open meeting hosted by the Southern Africa Partnership Committee, Rev. Tutu said the Alexandria, Va.-based institute organizes retreats, quiet days and pilgrimages to offer "immersion in holy time and spaces set apart from daily, familiar routines and locations," as its brochure puts it. An upcoming pilgrimage to South Africa in October will focus on the role of prayer and protest in South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle. Marking the 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprisings that altered the course of South African history, the pilgrimage will include a particular highlight when it begins with a 75th birthday party for Archbishop Tutu, who chaired post-apartheid South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Committee. It will also include visits to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela and other political leaders were imprisoned, Cape Town and a game preserve. In 2007 the institute will host pilgrimages to South Africa and India, the source of Gandhi's nonviolent protest that profoundly shaped social and civil rights changes in South Africa and the United States. More information is available at www.tutuinstitute.org.
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