Ambassador, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee to Address World Hunger Relief

Ambassador Tony Hall Speaks at Azusa Pacific University

AZUSA, CA (01/16/2008)(readMedia)-- Today’s college students are passionate about social justice issues, including world hunger. Whether looking abroad to Darfur, or around the corner to the local homeless population, students at Azusa Pacific University want to help. In pursuit of expanding their awareness on these issues, APU will kick off Economic Justice Week by welcoming special guest Ambassador Tony Patrick Hall, one of the leading advocates for hunger and relief programs to improve international human rights conditions in the world.

Hall will visit APU on Mon., Jan. 28 to dialog with the university administration, student leaders, mission teams, and the student body on the issue of world hunger and relief efforts. He will speak several times throughout the day, including: * Chapel at 9:30 a.m. * Open Session with Students at 10:30 a.m. * Dialog with Global Missions Leadership Team at 4 p.m.

“Faith in Jesus Christ compels us to address today’s cultural issues, how they intersect with our faith, and what we, as scholars and world citizens, can do to respond,” said President Jon R. Wallace. “Having guests like Ambassador Hall on campus to speak with our faculty, staff, and students helps us in our search for increased understanding and solutions.”

Hall served as an American politician in the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Ohio) for more than 20 years and is a three-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. He recently served as ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and chief of the U.S. mission to the United Nations Agencies in Rome, which includes the World Food Program and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

In his efforts to witness the plight of the poor and hungry first-hand, Hall has visited numerous poverty-stricken and war-torn regions of the world. He has spent time in more than 100 countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe to North Korea, and was one of the first members of Congress to visit Ethiopia during the great famine in 1984-85.

Featured in TIME magazine and ranked as one of the nation’s best by U.S.News & World Report and The Princeton Review, Azusa Pacific is a comprehensive, Christian, evangelical university, committed to God First and known for excellence in higher education. Azusa Pacific’s main campus lies just 26 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley, while its seven Southern California regional centers bring convenience and extend quality programming. The university offers more than 50 areas of undergraduate study, 23 master’s degrees, and 7 doctorates to a total student population of more than 8,100. For more information, call (800) 825-5278 or visit www.apu.edu.

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