‘EUROPEAN PEACE RUN’ VISITS MALTA THIS WEEK

On the 19^th September, the Sri Chimnoy Oneness Home Peace Run will carry a message for peace to Malta, when the history's longest and largest relay run for peace, taking place on all seven European continents, hits the island with the support of the Parliamentary Secretariat in the Ministry of Education.

An International group of runners started in 1 March in Lisbon, Portugal, to visit 45 European Nations, covering 24,000km while carrying a Flame of Peace Torch through major towns and villages to symblise the goal of peace through sports. The European Peace Run will conclude in Budapest, Hungary on 24 October, 2001.

The Malta run will start at 5:00pm from Mdina passing through Attard, Mriehel, Sta Venera, Hamrun, Blata-l-Bajda, Floriana and ends at 6:00pm at The Palace, Valletta.

The European Peace Run is part of the Sri Chimnoy Oneness-Home Run, a global initiative held every other year since 1987 that has involved 3,5 million people and covered 490,000km in 126 countries. The Peace Run includes running events in the U.S, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Australia.

The Peace Run has been endorsed by world class athletes such as Carl Lewis and Grete Wailtz, by leaders of numerous countries, by Pope John Paul II, the late Mother Teresa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Michail Gorbachev, President Nelson Mandela and Sir Paul McCartney, as well as many others.

Anyone one can join in - athletes and non-athletes, young and old alike - by carrying the Peace Torch a few steps or a few miles or by sheering the runners.