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Pacem in Terris Award

Index Pacem in Terris Award

The Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award is a Catholic peace award which has been given annually since 1964, in commemoration of the 1963 encyclical letter Pacem in terris (Peace on Earth) of Pope John XXIII. [1]

68 relations: A. Philip Randolph, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Arthur Simon, Augustana College (Illinois), Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri, Cardinal (Catholic Church), Catholic Church, Cesar Chavez, Crystal Lee Sutton, Daniel Berrigan, Desmond Tutu, Donald Mosley, Dorothy Day, Dorothy Hennessey, Eileen Egan, Encyclical, Ernest Leo Unterkoefler, Franciscans, George F. Kennan, George G. Higgins, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Gwen Hennessey, Harold Hughes, Hélder Câmara, Helen Caldicott, Helen Prejean, Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Iowa, Islam, James Groppi, James W. Douglass, Jean Vanier, Jim Wallis, John Dear, John F. Kennedy, John Howard Griffin, Joseph Bernardin, Kim Bobo, Kolkata, Lech Wałęsa, Mairead Maguire, María Julia Hernández, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Mottet, Maurice John Dingman, Minister (Christianity), Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize, Order of Saint Benedict, Pacem in terris, ..., Pax Christi, Pope John XXIII, Quad Cities, Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, Salim Ghazal, Samuel Ruiz, Sargent Shriver, Saul Alinsky, Servant of God, Simone Campbell, Sisters of Social Service, Sisters of St. Joseph, Sisters of the Holy Humility of Mary, St. Ambrose University, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Thomas Gumbleton, U.S. state, Widad Akrawi. Expand index (18 more) »

A. Philip Randolph

Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties.

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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born November 26, 1931) is an Argentine activist, community organizer, art painter, writer and sculptor.

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Arthur Simon

Arthur Simon (born 1930 in Eugene, Oregon: St. Ambrose University (Davenport, Iowa) website) is founder and president emeritus of Bread for the World, a citizens' lobby on hunger, which he served for almost two decades.

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Augustana College (Illinois)

Augustana College is a private liberal arts college in Rock Island, Illinois, United States.

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Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri

Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (born July 16, 1947) is a bishop of the Catholic Church in Guatemala.

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Cardinal (Catholic Church)

A cardinal (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis, literally Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church) is a senior ecclesiastical leader, considered a Prince of the Church, and usually an ordained bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cesar Chavez

Cesar Chavez (born César Estrada Chávez,; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962.

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Crystal Lee Sutton

Crystal Lee Sutton (née Pulley; December 31, 1940 – September 11, 2009) was an American union organizer and advocate who gained fame in 1979 when the film Norma Rae was released, based on events related to her being fired from her job at the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on May 30, 1973, for "insubordination" after she copied an anti-union letter posted on the company bulletin board.

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Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Joseph Berrigan (May 9, 1921April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, and poet.

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Desmond Tutu

Desmond Mpilo Tutu (born 7 October 1931) is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.

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Donald Mosley

Donald Mosley is a co-founder of the Habitat for Humanity organization.

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Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert.

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Dorothy Hennessey

Dorothy Marie Hennessey, O.S.F., (March 24, 1913 – January 24, 2008) was a Roman Catholic Franciscan Religious Sister and activist involved with the Peace and Justice movement.

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Eileen Egan

Eileen Egan (1912–2000) was a journalist, Roman Catholic activist, and co-founder of the Catholic peace group, American PAX Association and its successor Pax Christi-USA, the American branch of International Pax Christi.

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Encyclical

An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Roman Church.

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Ernest Leo Unterkoefler

Ernest Leo Unterkoefler (August 17, 1917 – January 4, 1993) was an American Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Charleston from 1964-90.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi.

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George F. Kennan

George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat and historian.

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George G. Higgins

Msgr. George Gilmary Higgins (January 21, 1916 – May 1, 2002) was an American labor activist known as the "labor priest".

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Gustavo Gutiérrez

Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino (born 8 June 1928) is a Peruvian philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest regarded as one of the founders of liberation theology.

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Gwen Hennessey

Gwen Hennessey, O.S.F., (born September 29, 1932) is a Roman Catholic Franciscan Sister and activist most widely known for her anti-war protests.

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Harold Hughes

Harold Everett Hughes (February 10, 1922 – October 23, 1996) was the 36th Governor of Iowa from 1963 until 1969; he had been a Republican earlier in his life.

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Hélder Câmara

Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara (February 7, 1909 – August 27, 1999) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic Archbishop.

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Helen Caldicott

Helen Mary Caldicott (born 7 August 1938) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general.

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Helen Prejean

Helen Prejean, C.S.J. (born April 21, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Roman Catholic sister, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph based in New Orleans, and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.

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Hildegard Goss-Mayr

Hildegard Goss-Mayr (born 22 January 1930, Vienna) is an Austrian nonviolent activist and Christian theologian.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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James Groppi

Father James Edmund Groppi (November 16, 1930 – November 4, 1985) was a Roman Catholic priest and noted civil rights activist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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James W. Douglass

James W. "Jim" Douglass (born 1937) is an American author, activist, and Christian theologian.

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Jean Vanier

Jean Vanier, CC, GOQ, born September 10, 1928, is a Canadian Catholic philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian.

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Jim Wallis

James E. Wallis Jr. (born June 4, 1948) is a Christian writer and political activist.

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John Dear

John Dear (born August 15, 1959) is an American Catholic priest, Christian pacifist, vegetarianism advocate, author and lecturer, and a former member of the Society of Jesus.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John Howard Griffin

John Howard Griffin (June 16, 1920 – September 9, 1980) was an American journalist and author from Texas, who wrote about racial equality.

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Joseph Bernardin

Joseph Louis Bernardin (April 2, 1928 – November 14, 1996) was an American Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

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Kim Bobo

Kim Bobo (born c.1955) is an American religious and workers' rights activist, and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, which she founded in 1996.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943) is a retired Polish politician and labour activist.

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Mairead Maguire

Mairead Maguire (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland.

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María Julia Hernández

María Julia Hernández (January 30, 1939 – March 30, 2007) was a prominent human rights advocate who tried to speak for victims of the civil war in El Salvador.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.

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Marvin Mottet

Marvin Alfred Mottet (May 31, 1930 – September 16, 2016) was a 20th and 21st century Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Davenport in the US state of Iowa.

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Maurice John Dingman

Maurice John Dingman (January 20, 1914 – February 1, 1992) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Minister (Christianity)

In Christianity, a minister is a person authorized by a church, or other religious organization, to perform functions such as teaching of beliefs; leading services such as weddings, baptisms or funerals; or otherwise providing spiritual guidance to the community.

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu,; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Order of Saint Benedict

The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB; Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti), also known as the Black Monksin reference to the colour of its members' habitsis a Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Pacem in terris

Pacem in terris (Peace on Earth) was a papal encyclical issued by Pope John XXIII on 11 April 1963 on nuclear non-proliferation.

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Pax Christi

Pax Christi International is an international Catholic peace movement.

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Pope John XXIII

Pope John XXIII (Ioannes; Giovanni; born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli,; 25 November 18813 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963 and was canonized on 27 April 2014.

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Quad Cities

The Quad Cities is a region of five cities in northwest Illinois and southeastern Iowa,Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline in Illinois.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport (Dioecesis Davenportensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church for the southeastern quarter of the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Salim Ghazal

Salim Gazal (July 7, 1931 – April 29, 2011) was a bishop in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

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Samuel Ruiz

Samuel Ruiz García (3 November 1924 – 24 January 2011) was a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate who served as bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, from 1959 until 1999.

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Sargent Shriver

Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. (November 9, 1915 – January 18, 2011) was an American diplomat, politician and activist.

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Saul Alinsky

Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer.

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Servant of God

"Servant of God" is a term used for individuals by various religions for people believed to be pious in the faith's tradition.

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Simone Campbell

Simone Campbell, SSS (born October 22, 1945), is an American Roman Catholic Religious Sister, lawyer, lobbyist and executive director of NETWORK.

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Sisters of Social Service

The Sisters of Social Service (SSS) are a Roman Catholic religious institute of women founded in Hungary in 1923 by Margaret Slachta.

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Sisters of St. Joseph

The Sisters of St.

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Sisters of the Holy Humility of Mary

The Sisters of the Humility of Mary, also known as the Congregation of the Humility of Mary, is a Roman Catholic religious congregation, founded at Dommartin-sous-Amance, France, in 1855.

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St. Ambrose University

St.

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Thích Nhất Hạnh

Thích Nhất Hạnh (born as Nguyễn Xuân Bảo on October 11, 1926) is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist.

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Thomas Gumbleton

Thomas John Gumbleton (born January 26, 1930) is a retired Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Widad Akrawi

Widad Akreyi is a health expert and human rights activist of Kurdish ancestry.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacem_in_Terris_Award

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