Religion:World Methodist Peace Award

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The World Methodist Peace Award is a peace award. It was established by Dr. Stanley Leyland at the 13th World Methodist Conference in Dublin, Ireland held in 1976 and is awarded by the World Methodist Council. It is awarded for significant contributions to peace, reconciliation and justice on the basis of courage, creativity and consistency.[1]

Recipients

1970s

  • 1977: Saidie Patterson, Northern Ireland
  • 1978: Anwar Sadat, Egypt

1980s

  • 1980: Abel Hendricks, South Africa
  • 1981: Donald Soper, Baron Soper, Great Britain
  • 1982: Kenneth Mew, Zimbabwe
  • 1984: Tai-Young Lee, Korea
  • 1985: Jimmy Carter, USA
  • 1986: Sir Alan Walker and Lady Winifred Walker, Australia
  • 1987: Bert Bissell, UK
  • 1987: Woodrow Bradley Seals, USA
  • 1988: Gordon Wilson, Northern Ireland

1990s

  • 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, USSR
  • 1991: Bärbel Bohley, Germany
  • 1992: Zdravko Beslov, Bulgaria
  • 1994: Bishop Elias Chacour, Palestine
  • 1996: Stanley Mogoba, South Africa
  • 1997: Community of Sant'Egidio, Italy
  • 1998: Kofi Annan, Ghana
  • 1999: Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Argentina

2000s

  • 2000: Nelson Mandela, South Africa
  • 2001: Evangelist Joseph Rice Hale, USA
  • 2002: Boris Trajkovski, Macedonia
  • 2003: Casimira Rodríguez, Bolivia
  • 2004: Millard Fuller and Habitat for Humanity, USA
  • 2005: Bishop Lawi Imathiu, Kenya
  • 2006: Sunday Mbang, Nigeria
  • 2007: Harold Good, Northern Ireland
  • 2008: Helen Prejean, USA
  • 2009: Jeannine Brabon, Colombia

2010s

  • 2011: Rosalind Colwill, for work in Nigeria
  • 2012: Joy Balazo, Philippines
  • 2013: Marion and Anita Way, for work in Angola and Brazil
  • 2014: Dr. Hugh and Shirliann Johnson, for work in Algeria
  • 2015: Jo Anne Lyon, USA
  • 2017: Nassar Family and Tent of Nations, Israel/Palestine
  • 2017: Methodist Churches in Italy (OPCEMI)
  • 2018: Inderjit Bhogal, UK
  • 2019: James T. Laney, USA

2020s

  • 2020: John K. Yambasu, Sierra Leone
  • 2021: Rev. Olav Pärnamets, Estonia
  • 2022: Rev. Ebenezer Joseph, Sri Lanka

References

  1. ↑ "World Methodist Peace Award". https://worldmethodistcouncil.org/world-methodist-peace-award/. 

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