Walsh University Presents Internationally Acclaimed Author Immaculee Ilibagiza on October 22, 2009

Walsh University Presents Internationally Acclaimed Author Immaculee Ilibagiza
on October 22, 2009

NORTH CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As a part of the 50th
Anniversary Celebration, Walsh University is honored to welcome international
author and one of the world's leading speakers on peace, Immaculee Ilibagiza
on Thursday, October 22 at 7:30 pm at the Campus Sports Center of Walsh
University, 2020 East Maple St., North Canton, OH 44720.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091005/DC87225 )

General Admission Tickets are $25 per person, $5 for students, or FREE
admission with Walsh I.D. at the door. Tickets are now available on the Walsh
website at www.walsh.edu or by calling 330-490-7111.

There will be a special VIP Reception with Immaculee before the event at 6 pm
on October 22. Tickets are $50 per person and include price of admission to
the 7:30 pm presentation.

As an internationally acclaimed author, Immaculee is a Tutsi survivor of the
genocide that swept Rwanda from April to July 1994, when ordinary Hutu
citizens rose up against their ethnic rivals, the Tutsi people. More than
800,000 people were killed during those 100 days. Nearly all of Ilibagiza's
family - including her father, mother and two brothers - were among those
murdered. Today, Immaculee is regarded as one of the world's leading speakers
on peace, faith, and forgiveness.

Immaculee's first book, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan
Holocaust was released in March of 2006. Left to Tell quickly became a New
York Times Best Seller. To date it has been translated into fifteen languages
worldwide. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, EWTN, The Aljazeera Network,
The New York Times, USA Today, Newsday, and many other domestic and
international outlets. She was recently featured in Michael Collopy's
"Architects of Peace" project, which honored legendary people like Mother
Teresa, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama. She has been
recognized and honored with numerous humanitarian awards including The Mahatma
Gandhi International Award for Reconciliation and Peace in 2007.

Walsh University is an independent, co-educational Catholic liberal arts and
sciences institution that promotes academic excellence and diversity and
provides close faculty-student interaction. It is dedicated to teaching its
more than 2,800 students to become leaders in service to others through a
values-based education with an international perspective in the
Judeo-Christian tradition.

SOURCE Walsh University

Andrea Summerlot, Director of University Relations, +1-330-490-7296,
asummerlot@walsh.edu, or Jason Fugitt, University Relations Coordinator,
+1-330-490-7695 jfugitt@walsh.edu, both of Walsh University