Religions for Peace Receives 2020 Freedom of Worship Award
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Religions for Peace Awarded Freedom of Worship
On 31 March 2021, Secretary General Prof. Azza Karam virtually accepted the “Freedom of Worship” award on behalf of the entire Religions for Peace movement during a live premiere. The award was given to Religions for Peace for the movement’s over 50 years of unyielding determination and commitment to promote peace and speak up for those most in need
“I am only the recipient. But the community, I am privileged to serve, is the one that has done all the hard work. Thank you,” stated Prof. Azza Karam.
In her recipient speech, Prof. Azza Karam issues a clarion call for all faiths to work together: “are we going to stand together, or are we going to stand apart in every sense of the word?”
Religions for Peace intends to champion the Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Belief for another 50 years. While this imperative has never been more urgent, we need all faiths, all representatives, and all communities to work together.
About the Roosevelt Four Freedoms Awards
The Four Freedoms Medals are presented each year to people and organizations whose achievements have demonstrated a commitment to the principles which President Roosevelt proclaimed in his historic speech to Congress on 6 January 1941. If democracy is to survive and flourish, President Roosevelt declared, people everywhere in the world are entitled to four human rights: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Important words that have not lost any of their value and meaning even after almost 80 years.
Previous recipients of the “Freedom of Worship” medals are Desmond Tutu in 1998 and Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople in 2012, among many others.