Father Laurence's tireless peace initiatives and inter faith dialogues are supported by his holiness the Dalai Lama. This spiritual director of a “monastery without walls” — the World Community for Christian Meditation includes two thousand meditation groups in one hundred and fourteen countries.
Father Laurence Freeman recognizing Niska's work as contemplative selected a Niska painting with the students of Georgetown University’s for the walls of the meditation space in the John Main Center of Meditation and Inter-Religious Dialogue. The McSherry building (circa, 1792) is open to people of every faith and to all seeking truth in stillness and friendship.
