Pacem in Terris Award
The Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award ( German : "Peace on Earth Award") is a Catholic peace award in the United States .
The award has been presented annually since 1964 in memory of the encyclical Pacem in terris ("Peace on Earth") by Pope John XXIII. Awarded by the Diocese of Davenport , Iowa . The award goes to people with special commitment to peace and justice.
Since 1976 the "Quad Cities Pacem in Terris Coalition" has been the sponsor; Since 2005 there is the sponsorship of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport , the St. Ambrose University , the Augustana College , the United Churches of the Quad Cities and the religious order Sisters of the Holy Humility of Mary .
The winners Martin Luther King , Mother Teresa , Archbishop Desmond Tutu , Mairead Corrigan , Adolfo Maria Pérez Esquivel and Lech Wałęsa were later awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Award winners
- 1964: John Howard Griffin and John F. Kennedy (posthumous)
- 1965: Martin Luther King
- 1966: Sargent Shriver
- 1967: Asa Philip Randolph
- 1968: Pastor James Groppi
- 1969: Saul Alinsky
- 1970–1971: Prize not awarded
- 1972: Dorothy Day
- 1973: Prize not awarded
- 1974: Senator Harold Hughes
- 1975: Dom Hélder Câmara
- 1976: Mother Teresa
- 1977–1978: Prize not awarded
- 1979: Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
- 1980: Cristal Lee Sutton and Bishop Ernest Leo Unterkoefler
- 1981: Prize not awarded
- 1982: George F. Kennan
- 1983: Helen Caldicott , Australian anti-nuclear activist
- 1984: Prize not awarded
- 1985: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin , Archbishop of Chicago
- 1986: Bishop Maurice John Dingman
- 1987: Archbishop Desmond Tutu , South African Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 1988: Prize not awarded
- 1989: Eileen Egan , Welsh peace activist
- 1990: Mairead Corrigan , Northern Irish Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 1991: María Julia Hernández , lawyer for civil war victims in El Salvador
- 1992: César Chávez , Mexican peace activist
- 1993: Father Daniel Berrigan , US peace activist
- 1994: Prize not awarded
- 1995: Pastor Jim Wallis , founder of Sojourners Magazine
- 1996: Samuel Ruiz García , Bishop of Ciapas, Mexico
- 1997: Jim and Shelley Douglass , American peace activists
- 1998: Sister Helen Prejean CSJ
- 1999: Adolfo Maria Pérez Esquivel , Argentine Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 2000: Monsignor George G. Higgins, advocate of the labor movement and supporter of César Chávez
- 2001: Lech Wałęsa , former Polish President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 2002: Gwen Hennessey OSF and Sr. Dorothy Hennessey OSF
- 2003: Prize not awarded
- 2004: Rev. Arthur Simon , founder of Bread for The World
- 2005: Don Mosley , co-founder of Habitat for Humanity
- 2006: Prize not awarded
- 2007: Bishop Salim Ghazal
- 2008: Monsignor Marvin Mottet
- 2009: Hildegard Goss-Mayr
- 2010: Father John Dear SJ , peace movement activist
- 2011: Álvaro Ramazzini , Bishop of San Marcos , Guatemala
- 2012: Kim Bobo , Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice
- 2013: Jean Vanier , founder of the Arche ( L'Arche )
- 2014: Simone Campbell
- 2015: Thích Nhất Hạnh
- 2016: Pastor Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino
- 2017: Widad Akreyi
- 2018: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- 2019: Bishop Munib Younan
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thich Nhat Hanh named Pacem in Terris winner . Retrieved October 27, 2015.
- ^ RE: Pacem in Terris Peace and Freedom Award . In: Diocese of Davenport . ( davenportdiocese.org [accessed October 26, 2017]).