Priest who ministers "on the margins" nominated for Nobel Peace Prize aleteia.org

A priest from Argentina who has made it his life’s work to “go out to the margins” of society and try to restore dignity to humans living amid the scraps of a “throwaway culture” has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Fr. Pedro Opeka, 72, was nominated by Prime Minister Janez Janša of Slovenia for the high honor.

Opeka, a member of the religious order known as the Congregation of the Mission, or Vincentians, has worked with people living in trash heaps in Madagascar for more than 30 years. In 1989, he founded the Akamosa association, a word meaning “City of Friendship.” As a “solidarity movement to help the poorest of the poor,” Akamosa has provided homeless people and families with 4,000 brick houses and has helped to educate 13,000 children and young people, according to Catholic News Agency…

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