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Indian university honors Mormon church for humanitarian outreach

In a world stained by hate and violence, the unfettered practice of “true religion” plays a critical role in building peaceful societies, a top LDS Church leader said in accepting the Philosopher Saint Shri Dnyaneshwara World Peace Prize in India.

“Recognizing and protecting faith is the path to peace,” Mormon apostle D. Todd Christofferson said Monday while accepting the honor from MIT World Peace University in Pune, India.

“Religion defines and sustains us. For billions of believers, it is who we are and how we live,” Christofferson added in his acceptance speech, according to an LDS Church news release.