Fred Morris ’55

Thirty-four years after being kidnapped and tortured by the Brazilian military, Fred Morris ’55 was given an apology and awarded a lump-sum payment and monthly pension for life. As a United Methodist missionary in Brazil for 11 years before his 1974 expulsion, Morris had worked with Dom Helder Camara, the world famous Catholic archbishop. Camara would have been 100 on Sept. 26, 2008, the day Morris was flown to Brasilia for the formal apology and a meeting of the Amnesty Commission. Morris and his wife, Argentina (pictured), have retired to Nicaragua, where Morris remains active with Faith Partners of the Americas, a non-profit he formed to bridge churches in North America and the rest of the hemisphere.