Nobel Peace Prize
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, in prison for speaking up against human rights violations, has been a voice for women for almost two decades
By Pardis Mahdavi — October 9, 2023
(The Conversation) — Narges Mohammadi is the second Iranian woman, after Shirin Ebadi, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She remains locked up in Evin, Iran’s most notorious prison for political detainees.
Thích Nhất Hạnh, Zen master who preached compassion and nonviolence, dies
By Ira Rifkin — January 21, 2022
(RNS) — The Vietnamese Buddhist monk, described as 'the second most famous Buddhist in the world, after the Dalai Lama,' by one expert, founded a worldwide network of monastic centers.
Congolese Pentecostals see Denis Mukwege, Nobel Prize-winning doctor, as a ‘blessing’
By Bob Smietana — October 18, 2018
(RNS) — The doctor has dedicated his award to women all over the world harmed by conflict and suffering violence every day.
Nadia Murad’s Nobel win explained: Who are the Yazidis?
By Christine Allison — October 7, 2018
(The Conversation) — Nadia Murad's work against sexual violence, which has won her a share of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, came after suffering persecution by ISIS for being a Yazidi.
Meet the Nobel-nominated priest who rescues African refugees from Mediterranean
By Fredrick Nzwili — October 13, 2015
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Mussie Zerai, a 40-year-old Catholic priest from tiny Eritrea in North Africa, is getting recognition for his work rescuing African refugees in the Mediterranean.
Former President Carter mediating dispute between Martin Luther King heirs
By Reuters — October 7, 2015
ATLANTA (Reuters) King's sons want to sell their father's Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal, while the late civil rights leader's surviving daughter, Bernice King, opposes the sale, calling the items "sacred."
New film shows Malala Yousafzai’s family jokes and school struggles
By Reuters — September 4, 2015
(Reuters) The intimate portrait shows the young Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize winner more at ease speaking at U.N. headquarters in New York or addressing students in Syrian refugee camps than with classmates in Britain where she was flown for surgery.
Malala Yousafzai: Kids ‘should stand up for their rights’
By Kim Hjelmgaard — October 10, 2014
(RNS) The Nobel committee "regards it as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism," it said.
Bookies put their odds on Pope Francis to win the Nobel Peace Prize
By Josephine McKenna — October 8, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Argentine pope is currently the 5-2 favorite to win the award, which will be announced by the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, on Friday.
Update: Family fight over MLK Bible inches toward resolution
By Adelle M. Banks — February 20, 2014
(RNS) Bernice King had said that her father "MUST be turning in his grave" over her brothers' attempts to sell his Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal, calling it "outright morally reprehensible.”
Bernice King blasts brothers’ plans to sell MLK Bible
By Adelle M. Banks — February 4, 2014
(RNS) “As Mark 8:36 teaches, 'For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?'" she said. “Our Father MUST be turning in his grave. As a minister of the Gospel, the thought of selling my daddy’s Bible troubles my mind, vexes my spirit and weighs on my soul.”
Speculation about Mandela’s fate seen as cultural taboo
By Zaheer Cassim — June 17, 2013
(RNS) In the South African culture, grave illness is believed to be a private matter between the dying and their families.
Dalai Lama wins Templeton Prize for work on science, religion
By Tracy Gordon — March 29, 2012
NEW YORK (RNS) The 2012 Templeton Prize, which recognizes "spiritual progress" in the world, was awarded to the Dalai Lama for his long-standing support of the engagement of religion and science. By Chris Herlinger.
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