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The three Opus Prize finalists sat amongst students, faith leaders and community members, closed their eyes and listened as prayers gently grazed the walls of Gonzaga’s University Chapel Wednesday evening.

Gonzaga University faculty and students will explore the themes, issues and ideas surrounding the stories of the finalists for the 2014 Opus Prize in a series of lectures and panel discussions this fall.

They’re quietly transforming the lives of the world’s poor, working with incarcerated women and their children in New York, serving the Dalit caste living in the slums of India and trying to educate Bangkok’s neediest children.

After searching the world for great faith-based humanitarians, Gonzaga University today announced three finalists for the 2014 Opus Prize: Sister Tesa Fitzgerald of Hour Children in Queens, New York; Gollapalli Israel, of the Janodayam Social Education Centre in Chennai, India; and the Rev. Joseph Maier, of the Mercy Centre Human Development Foundation in Bangkok.