Awards

Howard Thurman Ecumenical Stained Glass Award

In March 2003  Mansukh Patel received the Howard Thurman Ecumenical Stained Glass Award at the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia during the Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence.

The theme of this week was
“Universal Spirituality and Visionary Activism.”
Some past honorees include The Reverend Michael B. Beckwith, Mr. Les Brown, Dr. Johnnie Colemon, Mrs. Marian Wright Edelman, Arun Gandhi, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, Mrs. Corretta Scott King, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The Reverend Jessie Jackson, Sr., Honorable Nelson Mandela, The Reverend Mary Manin Morrissey, The Dr. Reverend Otis Moss, Jr. Dr. David Nobel, , and scores of nationally and internationally acclaimed clergy, civil rights leaders, and educators.

Shanti Ratna Award

In Jan 2006 the Shanti Ratna Peace Award was presented to Mansukh Patel and Savitri MacCuish in the Ramoji Film Studios, Hyderabad, India for the work of the World Peace Flame Pathway.  An initiative in which every country and region of the world collaborated with the World Peace Flame Foundation to lay a Pathway around the World Peace Flame which stands out side the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands.  At the same time a Statement for Peace was endorsed by every single country and region in the world.

Wilson Hinkes Peace Award

In October 2008, the Wilson Hinkes Peace Award was presented to the World Peace Flame Foundation for their contribution towards peace and in particular for empowering individuals to make a difference.