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Do not fill this in! ===Retirement from public life: 2010–2021=== [[File:TutuCOP17.JPG|thumb|Tutu at the [[2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference|COP17]] "We Have Faith: Act Now for [[Climate Justice]] Rally" in Durban, November 2011]] In October 2010, Tutu announced his retirement from public life so that he could spend more time "at home with my family – reading and writing and praying and thinking".<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 July 2010 |title=South Africa's Tutu Announces Retirement |publisher=CNN |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/07/22/south.africa.tutu.retires/index.html#fbid=ZeXEgKJ1qcV |access-date=25 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831090429/http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/07/22/south.africa.tutu.retires/index.html |archive-date=31 August 2017}}</ref> In 2013, he declared that he would no longer vote for the ANC, stating that it had done a poor job in countering inequality, violence, and corruption;<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 May 2013 |title=South Africa's Desmond Tutu: 'I will not vote for ANC' |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22478916 |access-date=5 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203011352/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22478916 |archive-date=3 December 2017}}</ref> he welcomed the launch of a new party, [[Agang South Africa]].<ref>{{Cite web |first=Natasha |last=Marrian |date=21 June 2013 |title=Tutu endorses Ramphele's Agang SA |url=https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/politics/2013-06-21-tutu-endorses-rampheles-agang-sa/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525204614/https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/politics/2013-06-21-tutu-endorses-rampheles-agang-sa/ |archive-date=25 May 2018 |access-date=25 May 2018 |website=Business Day|location=South Africa}}</ref> After Mandela's death in December, Tutu initially stated that he had not been invited to the funeral; after the government denied this, Tutu announced his attendance.<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 December 2013 |title=Desmond Tutu changes mind, going to Mandela funeral |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/desmond-tutu-changes-mind-going-to-mandela-funeral-1.2464192 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118171239/http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/desmond-tutu-changes-mind-going-to-mandela-funeral-1.2464192 |archive-date=18 January 2016 |access-date=18 August 2014 |publisher=CBC News}}</ref> He criticised the memorials held for Mandela, stating that they gave too much prominence to the ANC and marginalised [[Afrikaners]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Chothia |last=Farouk |date=17 December 2013 |title=Archbishop Tutu: Nelson Mandela services excluded Afrikaners |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25413501 |access-date=18 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517225759/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25413501 |archive-date=17 May 2017}}</ref> Tutu maintained an interest in social issues. In 2011, he called on the Anglican Church of Southern Africa to conduct [[same-sex marriages]];<ref>{{Cite web |first=Desmond |last=Tutu |date=11 June 2011 |title=All Are God's Children: On Including Gays and Lesbians in the Church and Society |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/desmond-tutu/religion-homosexuality_b_874804.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803215812/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/desmond-tutu/religion-homosexuality_b_874804.html |archive-date=3 August 2017 |access-date=12 August 2016 |website=HuffPost}}</ref> in 2015 he gave a blessing at his daughter Mpho's marriage to a woman in the Netherlands.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Aislinn|last= Laing |date=23 May 2016 |title=Desmond Tutu's reverend daughter marries a woman and loses church licence |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/23/desmond-tutus-reverend-daughter-marries-a-woman-and-loses-church/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226044532/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/23/desmond-tutus-reverend-daughter-marries-a-woman-and-loses-church/ |archive-date=26 February 2018 |website=The Telegraph}}</ref> In 2014, he came out in support of legalised [[Voluntary euthanasia|assisted dying]],<ref name="Tutu 2014">{{Cite web |first=Desmond |last=Tutu |date=12 July 2014 |title=Desmond Tutu: A dignified death is our right – I am in favour of assisted dying |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/12/desmond-tutu-in-favour-of-assisted-dying |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105002459/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/12/desmond-tutu-in-favour-of-assisted-dying |archive-date=5 January 2018 |access-date=14 May 2017 |website=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first=Miranda |last=Prynne |date=13 July 2014 |title=Desmond Tutu: I support assisted dying |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10964306/Desmond-Tutu-I-support-assisted-dying.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328232607/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10964306/Desmond-Tutu-I-support-assisted-dying.html |archive-date=28 March 2017 |access-date=22 April 2017 |website=The Telegraph}}</ref> revealing that he wanted that option open to him.<ref name="BBC News assisted dying 2016">{{Cite web |date=7 October 2016 |title=Archbishop Desmond Tutu 'wants right to assisted death' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-37587290 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210154435/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-37587290 |archive-date=10 February 2017 |access-date=14 May 2017 |website=BBC News}}</ref> Tutu continued commenting on international affairs. In November 2012, he published a letter of support for the imprisoned US military whistleblower [[Chelsea Manning]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 December 2012 |first=Desmond|last=Tutu|author2=Mairead Maguire|author3=Adolfo Pérez Esquivel|title=Nobel Laureates Salute Bradley [sic] Manning |url=http://www.thenation.com/article/171272/nobel-laureates-salute-bradley-manning# |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408113505/https://www.thenation.com/article/nobel-laureates-salute-bradley-manning/ |archive-date=8 April 2018 |access-date=15 February 2013 |website=The Nation}}</ref> In May 2014, Tutu visited [[Fort McMurray]], in the heart of Canada's [[oil sands]], condemning the "negligence and greed" of oil extraction.<ref name="oilsands1">{{Cite news |date=31 May 2014 |title=Desmond Tutu calls oilsands 'filth,' urges cooperation on environment |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/desmond-tutu-calls-oilsands-filth-urges-cooperation-on-environment-1.2660804 |access-date=26 December 2021}}</ref> A month earlier he had called for "an [[Fossil fuel divestment|apartheid-style boycott]] [of corporations financing the [[Climate justice|injustice of climate change]]] to save the planet".<ref name="oil2">{{Cite news |last=Tutu |first=Desmond |date=10 April 2014 |title=We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/10/divest-fossil-fuels-climate-change-keystone-xl |access-date=26 December 2021}}</ref> In August 2017, Tutu was among ten Nobel Peace Prize laureates who urged Saudi Arabia to stop the execution of 14 participants of the [[2011–12 Saudi Arabian protests]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 August 2017 |title=Nobel laureates urge Saudi king to halt 14 executions |work=National Post |url=https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/nobel-laureates-urge-saudi-king-to-halt-14-executions |access-date=25 May 2018}}</ref> In September, Tutu asked Myanmar's leader [[Aung San Suu Kyi]] to halt the [[Rohingya persecution in Myanmar (2016–present)|army's persecution of the country's Muslim Rohingya minority]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Naaman |last=Zhou |author2=Michael Safi |date=8 September 2017 |title=Desmond Tutu condemns Aung San Suu Kyi: 'Silence is too high a price' |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/08/desmond-tutu-condemns-aung-san-suu-kyi-price-of-your-silence-is-too-steep |access-date=25 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302134807/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/08/desmond-tutu-condemns-aung-san-suu-kyi-price-of-your-silence-is-too-steep |archive-date=2 March 2018}}</ref> In December 2017, he was among those to condemn US President [[Donald Trump]]'s decision to [[United States recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel|officially recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Paula |last=Slier |date=7 December 2017 |title=God is Weeping Over Inflammatory Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel Capital |work=Eyewitness News |url=http://ewn.co.za/2017/12/07/god-is-weeping-over-inflammatory-recognition-of-jerusalem-as-israel-capital |access-date=8 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171208105224/http://ewn.co.za/2017/12/07/god-is-weeping-over-inflammatory-recognition-of-jerusalem-as-israel-capital |archive-date=8 December 2017}}</ref> Tutu's last prominent public statement on world affairs was an op-ed published in the UK ''Guardian'' on 30 December 2020, in which he called for incoming U.S. President Joe Biden to declare Israel had nuclear weapons and to eliminate all financial aid to the country (he believed that doing so would lead to the fall of Israel's "apartheid" system because it would remove alleged Israeli deterrence over the Arabs and force a "peace agreement").<ref>{{cite news| last = Tutu| first = Desmond| date = 31 December 2020| title = Joe Biden should end the US pretence over Israel's 'secret' nuclear weapons| newspaper = The Guardian | page =| url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/31/joe-biden-us-pretence-israel-nuclear-weapons| access-date = 16 September 2023| quote =}}</ref> ====Death==== Tutu died from cancer at the Oasis Frail Care Centre in [[Cape Town]] on 26 December 2021, aged 90.<ref>{{cite news |last=Berger |first=Marilyn |date=26 December 2021 |title=Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/obituaries/desmond-tutu-dead.html |url-access=limited |access-date=26 December 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=26 December 2021 |title=South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies aged 90 |agency=Reuters |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/south-africas-desmond-tutu-dies-aged-90/article38041030.ece |access-date=26 December 2021 |newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref> South African president [[Cyril Ramaphosa]] described Tutu's death as "another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa."<ref>{{cite web|title=Statement on the passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu|url=https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/press-statements/statement-passing-archbishop-emeritus-desmond-mpilo-tutu|url-status=live|access-date=28 December 2021|website=The Presidency Republic Of South Africa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226072430/https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/press-statements/statement-passing-archbishop-emeritus-desmond-mpilo-tutu |archive-date=26 December 2021 }}</ref> Tutu's body [[lying in state|lay in state]] for two days before the funeral.<ref>{{cite web|last=Agence France-Presse|date=28 December 2021|title=Archbishop Desmond Tutu to lie in state in Cape Town for two days|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/28/archbishop-desmond-tutu-to-lie-in-state-in-cape-town-for-two-days|access-date=30 December 2021|website=The Guardian}}</ref> For several days before the funeral the cathedral rang its bells for 10 minutes each day at noon and national landmarks, including [[Table Mountain]], were illuminated in purple in Tutu's honour.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mji|first1=Zanele|last2=Chutel|first2=Lynsey|date=27 December 2021|title=South Africa Begins a Week of Mourning for Desmond Tutu|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/world/africa/desmond-tutu-mourning.html|access-date=30 December 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> A [[Funeral Mass]] was held for Tutu at St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town on 1 January 2022.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59843925 South Africa holds state funeral for Archbishop Desmond Tutu]. BBC News, 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/01/funeral-of-desmond-tutu-takes-place-in-cape-town |title=Desmond Tutu laid to rest at state funeral in Cape Town|newspaper=The Guardian|first=Jason |last=Burke|access-date=1 January 2022}}</ref> President [[Cyril Ramaphosa]] gave a eulogy, and [[Michael Nuttall]], the former [[Diocese of Natal|bishop of Natal]], delivered the sermon. Attendance at the funeral was limited to 100 due to [[COVID-19 pandemic]] restrictions. During the funeral, Tutu's body lay in a "plain pine coffin, the cheapest available at his request to avoid any ostentatious displays".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/africa-religion-cape-town-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-dbff09f744f1c5c63e43b65617e8ed4a|title = 'Moral compass': Requiem for South Africa's Archbishop Tutu|work = [[AP News]]|first=Andrew|last=Meldrum|date =1 January 2022|access-date=10 September 2022}}</ref> Following the funeral, Tutu's remains were to be [[Alkaline hydrolysis (body disposal)|aquamated]]; his ashes are interred in St. George's Cathedral.<ref name="BBC funeral">{{cite web| title= Desmond Tutu: Body of South African hero to be aquamated | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-59842728 | date= 31 December 2021| work= [[BBC News]]| accessdate= 1 January 2022 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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