Father michael lapsley biography of abraham

In this way, Father Michael Lapsley has contributed immensely to the cause of peace and inter-religious cooperation. Contents move to sidebar hide. Michael Lapsley as a candidate for the Peace prize. Thank you Michael and I very much hope that you get this prize. Father Lapsley draws his spirituality from his reflections on injustices, pain and sufferings caused by social inequalities that he witnessed around him and this led him to seek justice for all based on his understanding of the Bible.

I will never forget it. In the perceiving of that peace a door seems to open and to allow healing to enter in, to begin the journey towards reconciliation and restoration. He facilitates healing memories workshops among inmates, refugees and the sick in numerous countries on every continent. In , he began to speak out on behalf of schoolchildren who were being shot, detained and tortured.

On his return to South Africa in he helped to start the association Friends of Cuba and later became its first national president. Wendy Spray. We had many friends in common in the anti-apartheid movement and were members of the Anglican Communion and Society of Friends Quakers in Gaborone, and worked with refugees from South Africa and Zimbabwe.

He is doing real reconciliation work. As a global activist, Father Lapsley after recognizing that racism was not confined to South Africa alone, he did not restrict himself within his country, but has moved globally such as launching the association called Friends of Cuba or creating the International Network for Peace, along with the families of those killed in the September 11 attacks in USA, to promote effective and nonviolent solutions to terrorism.

Post-apartheid work [ edit ]. I have known Michael for over 40 years and it has always been an honour to consider him part of our family. Now at 65, he travels the world as an agent of reconciliation and peace. He touched the lives of many people and was totally committed to justice and peace.

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Never one to be prone to discouragement, he managed to extricate himself from his ordeal with a strength which stemmed from humility and compassion. Each comment will be worth three votes for this candidate. To me he is a man of great inspiration. I have the privilege of both a professional relationship and a personal friendship with Fr Michael and I cannot think of a more appropriate or deserving recipient of such a prize as the Public Peace Prize.

I support the nomination of Michael Lapsley. Loading Comments We have remained in intermittent contact over the decades since then, especially during his visits to family in New Zealand when he would always be happy to accept public speaking engagements to speak for reconciliation in South Africa and in the many other places where his ministry has taken him.

I am happy to vote for him!

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Because of the death threats he received, he went into exile in Lesotho and later in Zimbabwe. Sign me up. He went to South Africa at the height of apartheid in that country and began his work as Chaplain in black and white campuses, which exposed him to student activism and the injustices experience by black students under apartheid.