We pray that Aung San Suu Kyi and her country are now on a path to freedom

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma

We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity. The Syrians are members of our family.