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Spiritual Awareness Week
Features Michael Nobel, nephew of the founder of the Nobel Prize
Atlanta, March 31, 2003-Dr. Michael
Nobel travels to Morehouse College to head a distinguished lineup
of spiritual leaders and world peace advocates who will participate
in this year’s Spiritual Awareness Week. Nobel is the grand
nephew of famed inventor Alfred Nobel, who also founded the Nobel
Prize.
Dr. Nobel will receive the Gandhi,
King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize. He is the second recipient
of the award, which was established last year to recognize leaders
who promote peace and world reconciliation. Nobel is chairman
of the Nobel family society’s board of directors and of
the Appeal of the Peace Prize Laureates Foundation, an association
of the living Nobel Peace Prize winners. The entire schedule for
the week is below. All events are in the Martin Luther King Jr
International Chapel.
Sunday, March
31
Easter Sunday Worship Service-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: The Reverend Dr. Rocco A. Errico, Founder and President,
NOOHRA Foundation,
Smyrna, Georgia
Thursday, April 4
Spiritual Awareness Crown Forum-11:00 a.m.
MLK Assassination Anniversary Observance
Speaker: Rev. Dr. Frederick Douglas Haynes III
Friendship West Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas
Seminar: Energetic Balancing to Increase
Your Life Force, Consciousness, and Well-being–3:00
p.m.
Presenter: Ms. Jamelle-Rackley-Riley
AIM Program, Peachtree City, Georgia
Friday, April 5
All Day Community Builders Workshop
with International Peacemakers-9:30 a.m.
Presenter: Mr. James Michael Wine, International Dir. Voices
of the World Global Campaign Strategy and Peace Education
The Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation, Stockholm,
Sweden
Saturday, April 6
Workshop 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Presenters: Dr. Barbara Marx Hubbard, President
“The Peace Room” Foundation for Conscious Evolution
Santa Barbara, California
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Saturday, April
6 (cont.)
Dr. Rocco A. Errico, Biblical Aramaic Scholar
“Blessed Are The Peacemakers”
Hillside International Truth Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Interfaith Convocation-6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Imam Warith Deen Muhammad
Gandhi King Ikeda Award, Portrait Unveiling
Muslim American Society, Chicago, Illinois
Music: Mr. Ralph Freeman, Atlanta, Georgia
Dance: EKTA Unity “A Dance/Drama”
Gujarat, India
Sunday, April 7
Gandhi King Ikeda Community Builders Prize Ceremony-11:00
a.m.
Speaker: Dr. Michael Nobel, Chairman, Nobel Family Foundation
and of the Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation,
Stockholm, Sweden
Portrait Unveilings: Michael Nobel, Prince
El Hassan, Bin Talal, Alfred Nobel
Honorary Degree: Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, Tokyo, Japan
Special Musical Performance: Herbie Hancock, producer and
Jazz recording artist
Morehouse Glee Club Annual Spring Concert-4:00
p.m.
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students by Black Enterprise magazine, Morehouse College is the
nation’s largest, private liberal arts college for men. Founded
in 1867, the College enrolls approximately 3,000 students and
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Morehouse is one of only two Historically Black Colleges or Universities
to produce two Rhodes Scholars.
Prominent alumni include Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize
laureate and civil rights leader; Dr. David Satcher, former U.S.
Surgeon General and director of the National Center for Primary
Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine; Sheldon “Spike” Lee,
filmmaker and president of 40 Acres & A Mule Productions;
Maynard H. Jackson, president of Jackson Securities and the first
African-American mayor of Atlanta; and Nima A. Warfield, the first
African-American Rhodes Scholar from an Historically Black College
or University.
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