2010 First Freedom Awards Dinner Held
January 14, 2010 at the Richmond Marriot
Three renowned advocates of religious freedom were honored at the First Freedom Awards Dinner, held at the downtown Richmond Marriott. In commemoration of National Religious Freedom Day (January 16th), the First Freedom Center annually recognizes an international, national and Virginia award recipient. This year’s recipients were:
President Abdurrahman Wahid (September 1940–December 2009). President Wahid passed away just weeks before the Dinner. He was the first democratically elected president of Indonesia and a proponent of secular democracy and moderate Islam.
Felice D. Gaer is the director of the American Jewish Committee’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights and a leading member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Professor Melissa Rogers is the director of the Wake Forest School of Divinity Center for Religion and Public Affairs and an expert on church and state issues.
The First Freedom Center depends on your support to continue its many educational
programs that teach students of all ages about the importance of religious freedom.
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