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WaPo 'On Faith': The World's Cup Runneth Over With Compassion

First Posted: 06/14/10 10:23 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:45 PM ET

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As we proudly welcome hundreds of thousands of fans to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first world football championship tournament held on African soil, we South Africans have recently seen how fragile our newfound human rights culture is, and how easily issues of race and ethnicity still disturb the peace.

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As we proudly welcome hundreds of thousands of fans to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first world football championship tournament held on African soil, we South Africans have recently seen how fragile ...
As we proudly welcome hundreds of thousands of fans to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the first world football championship tournament held on African soil, we South Africans have recently seen how fragile ...
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Funkstronaut
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07:39 PM on 06/14/2010
The World's Cup runneth over with compassion... except in Somalia, where you will get your head beaten-in with a tire iron for watching a soccer match, due to Sharia Law.
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bblueskye
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01:20 PM on 06/14/2010
Desmond Tutu will always have influence in South Africa in anything that they involve him in.
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Mystic01
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04:15 PM on 06/14/2010
The man is a saint. Far more so than any Pope.
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MontanaSouth
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05:06 PM on 06/16/2010
He has such joy in his face in most pictures I see of him. I have only seen one interview and it left me what great admiration for him.
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