PRESS RELEASE: January 24, 2020
Believing in the spirit of partnership and cooperation between and among the various peace-building organizations and being aware of the need to work in partnership at local, national, regional and international levels for the purpose of promoting peaceful coexistence, non-violence, healing and harmonious interreligious relationships, the United Religions Initiative (URI) and May Peace Prevail on Earth International (MPPOE Int.) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance the long-standing partnership between the two organizations.
The agreement was signed at the end of 2020 by Rev. Victor H. Kazanjian, Jr., Executive Director of URI and Ms. Fumi Johns Stewart, Executive Director of MPPOE Int.
The MOU aims for outreach initiatives together by the two organizations to strengthen mutual understanding, compassion, cohabitation and cooperation across and between societies and to enhance further the two organizations' partnership to:
- Spread the Universal Message of Peace, May Peace Prevail On Earth, far and wide to embrace the lands and people of this Earth
- Foster understanding and respect for the diversity and oneness of the human family and the natural world
- Unite the hearts of all people in the common desire for peace on Earth
- Nurture inner peace and global awareness among children of the world
- Plant and dedicate together Peace Poles in different parts of the world
- Commemorate UN Days through public events like the International Day of Peace on September 21st
May Peace Prevail On Earth International (MPPOE Int.) is a non-political, non-religious international peace organization associated NGO with the United Nations Department of Global Communications and works to share the message of "May Peace Prevail on Earth" through the Peace Pole Project, with over 200,000 Peace Poles planted around the globe
MPPOE Int. (previously called the World Peace Prayer Society) is a grassroots global movement to inspire, and re-awaken the inherent consciousness of love, peace and harmony which exist in every one of us. It is a movement to bring inner peace of mind and to foster peace in the world at large.
May Peace Prevail on Earth.