Interesting Comments Made by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

EAST LONDON (ECN Monday 17 November 1997) - The most vile perpetrator was capable of change, Archbishop Desmond Tutu reminded those gathered at the Truth and Reconciliation Faith Community hearings this morning.

Opening the hearings in the Abbotsford Christian Centre, Tutu said: "We are meant to be able to encourage, jettison that guilt, confess, because God is a faithful God and will forgive us our sins." He continued: "And we say to those who have been the victims, be willing to forgive."

He said the religious community would have to insist that "even the most awful perpetrator is a child of God" and that such people had the capacity to change.


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