HONG KONG SALESIAN WORK RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS UN
AWARD
Julian Fox
HONG KONG: 1st May -- Youth Outreach, a prominent Salesian
work for Chinese streetkids, has been awarded the prestigious 'Worker for Peace'
(Servitor Pacis) award. Centre Director, Fr. Peter Newbery sdb, along with
key staff, will travel to New York on 15th June to formally accept the award,
which can be regarded as a significant recognition of the Salesian work in the
China Province and indeed within the Salesian Congregation. It is worth
noting that this is in fact the third time in the history of the award that it
has been received by a Salesian work (once in Cambodia and once in
Thailand).
The 'Servitor Pacis' award comes via an organization which
works under the UNO's Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United
Nations. One annual 'Path to Peace' award is bestowed annually upon a
single individual. This year it goes to Carlos Menem, President of
Argentina. Previous recipients have been Cory Aquino and Lech
Walesa. Since 1994, the Path to Peace Foundation has offered several
'Servitores Pacis' awards to recognize what it describes as 'that magnificent
legion of often unsung heroes, men and women in the most remore fields, who
literally spend their lives with the only purpose and desire to be where the
need is greater, where the wounds of humanity are festering and the pain
undending'. Further information concerning this award can be found at http://www.holyseemission.org/html/servitores.html
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