After years of joining arms with Black leaders to call for greater racial and ethnic harmony, President Russell M. Nelson will receive the first Gandhi-King-Mandela Peace Prize next month from Morehouse College.
SALT LAKE CITY — After years of joining arms with Black leaders to call for greater racial and ethnic harmony, President Russell M. Nelson will receive the first Gandhi-King-Mandela Peace Prize next month fromThe prize is awarded to "a person who promotes positive social transformation through nonviolent means. The individuals use their global leadership to affirm peace, justice, diversity and pluralism," according to Morehouse.
"President Nelson is, I believe, a role model for how Christians need to get out of three boxes — the race box, the nationality box and the culture box — to unite the human family," the Rev. Carter said. "With the power of his prophetic, revelational vision, he looked out across great troubles in this country and saw the chance to form an alliance," he said of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the NAACP.
An announcement by local church leaders in Georgia said the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square will perform virtually for the event and some Latter-day Saint general authorities will attend in person. He said he first became aware of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a fan of the Tabernacle Choir. Then he began a study of the church.
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