WORLD FIGURES HOLD PEACE TORCH
Luminaries from around the world have been taking part in the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run this year.
A team of international runners was welcomed by Vladimir Petrovsky, Director-General of the UN in Geneva, when the European Peace Run arrived at the Palais des Nations on March 23.
“We are very thankful to Sri Chinmoy for this very important peace initiative that has become part and parcel of international peace activities in the new world today,” he said.
Elsewhere in Europe, the Vice-Mayor of Amsterdam dedicated his city as a Sri Chinmoy Peace Capital during a Peace Run ceremony on May 15.
In Ottawa, Prince Charles of England held the Peace Torch and met with runners from the Canadian Peace Run on April 25, an event televised nationally over CBC.
Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. President to hold the Peace Torch when he greeted the American Peace Run as it passed through his hometown of Plains, Georgia, on April 29.
Starting out April 14 from the United Nations, the American Peace Run is travelling through all 48 contiguous states with separate runs in Alaska and Hawaii.
Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 31, Late March 2001 — June 2001