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Warm congratulations were sent by World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary Rev. Dr Samuel Kobia to Mrs Wangari Maathai, who today was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004.
Speaking as "your compatriot", Kobia assures Maathai, who is assistant minister of environment in the Kenyan government and founder of the country's well known Green Belt movement, that she has "brought honour to the African continent and its people".
Recalling that she was the WCC's advisor on environmental issues and a keynote speaker at its ground-breaking conference on Faith and Science at the MIT in 1979, Kobia affirms that the Council has "gained much from your insights".
"Your campaign against deforestation across Africa is a unique contribution not only to save African forests, but also African lives. As the Nobel Committee correctly says, you represent an 'example and a source of inspiration for everyone in Africa fighting for sustainable development, democracy and peace'," Kobia concludes.
The full text of Kobia's letter to Wangari Maathai is available on our website at: