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Charles W. Colson Papers, Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton College. Columns in Christianity Today; Columns in The Christian Post; Colson Center for Christian Worldview; Chuck Colson's biography at Prison Fellowship Ministries; Watergate Key Players by The Washington Post; Nixon aides say Felt is no hero msnbc.com. June 1, 2005.
Prison Fellowship was founded in 1976 by Charles W. Colson, a former Richard Nixon aide who served a seven-month prison sentence for a Watergate-related crime. [2] [3] [4] In 1979, Prison Fellowship International was founded as an international outreach to prisoners and a sister organization of Prison Fellowship.
The InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI) was an American Christian prison program operated by Prison Fellowship International (PFI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established by Chuck Colson. The program was closed in 2016.
The 80-year-old Colson died on April 21, 2012, felled by a brain hemorrhage moments after a speech about rising threats to religious liberty.
The PF restorative justice program is known as either the Sycamore Tree Project [11] or Umuvumu Tree Project. [12] Notably, in Rwanda, in response to the genocide of 1994 , Prison Fellowship introduced the Umuvumu Tree Project through 11,000 traditional courts, resulting in more than 32,000 genocide offenders confessing to their crimes.
The Fellowship Foundation traces its roots to Abraham Vereide, a Methodist clergyman and social innovator, who organized a month of prayer meetings in 1934 in San Francisco. [11] The Fellowship was founded in 1935 in opposition to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. [12] His work spread down the West Coast and eventually to Boston. [13]
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", [a] is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are ...
Junior Colson, center front, is surrounded by (left to right) adoptive mom Melanie Colson, brother Joshua, dad Steve and sister Amanda after Junior arrived in America in 2012. The Colsons adopted ...