* 1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.

* 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

* 1976-U. S. Center for World Mission founded in Pasadena, California ; 1600 Chinese assemble in Hong Kong for the Chinese Congress on World Evangelization ; Islamic World Congress calls for withdrawal of Christian missionaries ; Peace Child by Don Richardson appears in Reader's Digest.

** The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military by Dana Priest

One of Jones ' sources of inspiration was the controversial International Peace Mission movement leader Father Divine.

* Howard, R., " James Tilly Matthews in London and Paris 1793: His First Peace Mission — in His Own Words ", History of Psychiatry, Vol. 2, No. 5, ( March 1991 ), pp. 53-69.

Although King Leopold had promised a flotilla of river steamers, only one ( the Stanley ) worked ; Stanley requisitioned two ( Peace and Henry Reed ) from missionaries of the Baptist Mission and the Livingstone Inland Mission, whose protests were overridden, and the Florida, which was still under construction and so used as a barge.

It contains 24 articles on the following: " God ; Jesus Christ ; Holy Spirit ; Scripture ; Creation and Divine Providence ; the Creation and Calling of Human Beings ; Sin ; Salvation ; The Church of Jesus Christ ; The Church in Mission ; Baptism ; The Lord's Supper ; Foot Washing ; Discipline in the Church ; Ministry and Leadership ; Church Order and Unity ; Discipleship and the Christian Life ; Christian Spirituality ; Family, Singleness, and Marriage ; Truth and the Avoidance of Oaths ; Christian Stewardship ; Peace, Justice, and Nonresistance ; The Church's Relation to Government and Society ; and The Reign of God.

In one of the earliest racially-connected sit-ins, followers of Father Divine and the International Peace Mission Movement joined with the Cafeteria Workers Union, Local 302, in September 1939 to protest racially unfair hiring practices at New York's Shack Sandwich Shops, Inc.

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He founded the International Peace Mission movement, formulated its doctrine, and oversaw its growth from a small and predominantly black congregation into a multiracial and international church.

Another minister by the name of Jones would play a significant part in a brief struggle to gain control of the Peace Mission following Divine's death-Jim Jones, of the ' apostolic socialist ' movement Peoples Temple.

Father Divine's followers finally named the movement: the International Peace Mission movement.

The International Peace Mission movement established over 100 Heavens in the Northeastern United States.

In 1953, it became the home of evangelist Father Divine, and the center of his International Peace Mission movement.

The estate is today the center of the International Peace Mission movement.

They also added a garden like those on previous Peace Mission properties.

* www. peacemission. info Website on Father Divine's International Peace Mission Movement.

* Father Divine's International Peace Mission Movement, with information on visiting Woodmont

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Following the Bougainville Peace Agreement, the PMG focused primarily on facilitating the weapons disposal program, in co-operation with the small UN Observer Mission on Bougainville ( UNOMB ).

Edna Rose Ritchings ( c. 1925 – ) is the symbolic maintainer of the International Peace Mission movement.

She and her husband lived in a manor home, which doubled as a Peace Mission headquarters and church known as the Woodmont manor & estate from 1953.

Due to Father Divine's declining health, she presided over an increasing number of Peace Mission banquets.

* " The Church believes that by His cross Christ, Our Peace, reconciled Jews and Gentiles, making both one in Himself ".

Peace Action believes that every person has the right to live without the threat of nuclear weapons, that war is not a suitable response to conflict, and that the United States has the resources to both protect and provide for its citizens.

The book, The Case for Peace, explains what he believes is needed to be done in order to achieve peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Maguire, who nominated Mayors for Peace and Nihon Hidankyo jointly for the prize, said she believes that " both organizations have fulfilled the wish of Alfred Nobel to work for peace and disarmament and awarding the prize jointly to them would recognize the great sacrifice of especially the hibakusha and give support and encouragement to all working on one of the greatest challenges to humanity – to rid the world of all nuclear weapons and build peace amongst the human family.

' Heaven ': The Peace Mission believes that " Heaven " is a state of consciousness and views itself as a ' sample and example ' of ' heaven on earth ' where ' God is actually present ' physically and materially and interacts with the true believers as such.

' Unity of Religions ': The Peace Mission believes and teaches that Americanism, Brotherhood, Democracy, Christianity, Judaism and all true religions are synonymous.

' Politics ': The Peace Mission believes in Americanism and that all nations should and will fly the American flag and all people should and will speak English, the universal language.

' Education ': The Peace Mission believes in and totally supports public education in public schools.

' Economics ': The Peace Mission believes in cooperative and communal ownership of businesses to perpetuate and realize individual freedom.

The Peace Mission believes in mass production and the nationalization of major industries and banks by the state to insure equality and full employment.

Peace be upon him, who seeks truth and expresses belief in Allah and in His Prophet and testifies that there is no god but Allah and that He has no partner, and who believes that Muhammad is His servant and Prophet.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

About half of all Peace Corps projects assigned to voluntary agencies will be carried out by religious groups, according to an official of the corps.

No religious group, he declared in an interview, will receive Peace Corps funds unless it forswears all proselytizing on the project it proposes.

The four sculptural groups at the base of the Arc are The Triumph of 1810 ( Cortot ), Resistance and Peace ( both by Antoine Étex ) and the most renowned of them all, Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 commonly called La Marseillaise ( François Rude ).

According to an estimate by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), 40 % of all Brazilian arms transfers from 1985 to 1989 went to Iraq.

The Gayanashagowa, the oral constitution of the Iroquois nation also known as the Great Law of Peace, established a system of governance in which sachems ( tribal chiefs ) of the members of the Iroquois League made decisions on the basis of universal consensus of all chiefs following discussions that were initiated by a single tribe.

This friendship eventually manifested in first the Peace of Lodi and then the Italian League, a multi-polar defensive alliance of Italian states that succeeded in stabilising almost all of Italy for its duration.

In October James gave orders for the lords lieutenants in the provinces to provide three standard questions to all members of the Commission of the Peace: would they consent to the repeal of the Test Act and the penal laws ; would they assist candidates who would do so ; and they were requested to accept the Declaration of Indulgence.

In December it was announced that all the offices of deputy lieutenants and Justices of the Peace would be revised.

Among the most active of the major Curial institutions are the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which oversees the Catholic Church's doctrine ; the Congregation for Bishops, which coordinates the appointment of bishops worldwide ; the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, which oversees all missionary activities ; and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which deals with international peace and social issues.

*-10 vehicles, all donated by the United States to the Polish – Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion ( POLUKRBAT ).

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Thomas and the White House Peace Vigil has inspired Eleanor Holmes Norton to introduce the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act, that would require the United States to disable and dismantle its nuclear weapons when all other nations possessing nuclear weapons do likewise.

The dead, of all nationalities, are commemorated at the Cornerstone of Peace.

The Edict of Milan in 313 granted freedom to all religions in the Roman Empire, beginning the Peace of the Church.

Many Christians call their prophet Jesus of Nazareth the " Prince of Peace ", and see him as a messiah ( savior or deliverer ), the " Christ ", who manifested as the Son of God on Earth to establish God's Kingdom of Peace, wherein persons, societies, and all of Creation are to be healed of evil.

Peace Tattoo and Peace Signs, San Diego County Fair, Del Mar, California, 2009A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war ( or all wars ), or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.

The main plank of Saudi policy on the issue remains the Arab Peace Initiative, first launched by King Abdullah, as the then Crown Prince, in 2002: Arab governments would offer " normal relations and the security of Israel in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands, recognition of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of Palestinian refugees.

Prokofiev had been considering making an opera out of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel War and Peace, when news of the German invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941 made the subject seem all the more timely.

The University for Peace ( UPEACE ) was established in Costa Rica in 1980 “ to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations .”

Yemen supports the Arab Peace Initiative, which calls for Israel's full withdrawal from all occupied territories and the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in exchange for full normalization of relations with all Arab states in the region.

* October 30 – In Madrid, the Middle East Peace Conference opens, the first direct negotiations between Israel and nearly all its Arab adversaries.