New York, NY, September 18, 2025 – Saturday, September 20, 2025, Times Square will transform into a hub for global peace when Pause the World for Peace and May Peace Prevail On Earth International (MPPOE) unite forces to honor the International Day of Peace. The event, held from 11:30 AM to 4:30 PM, invites people in Times Square and around the world to participate in a day of unity, compassion, and collective visioning for a peaceful world.

In partnership with Good News Corporation and founder Paul Sladkus, participants will be invited to “plant” a virtual Peace Pole on the world map at www.plantpeace.worldpeace.org/, sharing their personal message for peace.

The day will also feature a powerful World Peace Flag Ceremony, led by MPPOE at 4pm Easten, honoring the 193 nations of the United Nations while uplifting the universal message: May Peace Prevail On Earth.

“Peace and Mother Earth Lovers, there are billions of you—let’s celebrate,” said Paul Sladkus, Founder of Good News Corporation. “Plant a Peace Pole—virtually or physically. Imagine 8 billion Peace Poles around the world! Together, let’s make this vision of global peace visible and real.”

Since 2002, Sladkus and Good News Corporation have supported the International Day of Peace, hosting Peace Vigils in New York’s Central Park and producing media to uplift the voices of peace. Today, their efforts connect with MPPOE’s decades-long mission of spreading peace through Peace Poles, an initiative launched in Japan by Masahisa Goi after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who envisioned Peace Poles planted in every corner of the world. To date, more than 200,000 Peace Poles have been planted across the globe.

“By inviting people to plant Peace Poles—whether in their communities or virtually—we’re giving the world something tangible to focus collective intention and energy on peace,” said Fumi Johns Stewart, Executive Director of MPPOE. “When people plant Peace Poles inscribed with the message, May Peace Prevail On Earth, we raise the consciousness of our global family to think and act in the Spirit of Peace.”

The event in Times Square is a call for peace, unity, and action. A Global Silent Minute for Peace will be observed at 12 Noon. This initiative reminds us that peace is possible—when we choose it together.

Event Details:
Here is the link to our Media Alert with all details: https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2025/09/11/media-alert-for-international-day-of-peace-weekend-september-192021-2025/

NYC City Hall, JOIN US, HOLDING A PEACE OR MOTHER EARTH SIGN

Friday, September 19, 2025, 11 AM – 12 Noon

Times Square, New York City
Saturday, September 20, 2025
11:15 AM – 4:30 PM

Peace Pole Map, designed, developed, and powered by Bay Park Data Solutions.
Learn More: www.bayparkdatasolutions.com

For more information and to plant your Peace Pole, visit: www.plantpeace.worldpeace.org

Good News Corporation – A nonprofit, est. 2002, producing the International Day of Peace and Earth Day Concerts since 2002 in Central Park and Times Square.  www.pausetheworldforpeace.org. Our 2025 Earth Day Concert had 1.5+ million live views, https://pausetheworldforpeace.org/2025/05/14/earth-day-sizzle-reel-from-times-square-april-22-2025/   WE SEEK 8 BILLION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE.

May Peace Prevail on Earth:  The May Peace Prevail On Earth movement is a grassroots global movement to inspire, and re-awaken the inherent consciousness of love, peace, and harmony which exists in every one of us. It is a movement to bring inner peace of mind and to foster peace in the world at large. www.worldpeace.org

Media Assets
Downloadable Video: How to Plant Your Virtual Peace Pole
https://vimeo.com/1119297551/f46fe416f2?share=copy
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11:58-12 Noon Reverend Paul Sladkus, on Sax, perform America the Beautiful to get the crowds attention, representing our beautiful country and the rest of the world, and crown thy good with brotherhood/sisterhood from sea to shining sea…Anywhere in the World. Pete Seeger told me go West from California to the New York Island, covers the world, This Land Was Made for You and Me! No More 9/11’s

12 Noon 12:01pm A Moment of Silence for World Peace, Mayor Adams, Pastor Monroe Faith Advisor/Faith- Based and Community Partnerships Office of the Mayor of New York City TBD

12:01 – 12:05 pm Mayor Adams, Pastor Monroe Faith Advisor/Faith- Based and Community Partnerships Office of the Mayor of New York City TBD or Reverend Paul Sladkus will introduce our program.

12:06 pm – 12:10 pm Reverend Paul Sladkus will thank the Mayor and Pastor Monrose and introduce all the participants in our Special 9/11 Press Conference for World Peace program, 11 Days of Global Unity, www.we.net and the International Day of Peace on 9/21 in Times Square, Moment of Silence, Pause the World for Peace, www.pausetheworldforpeace.org, www.unify.org

12:11 pm – 12:16 pm – Russell Daisey & Dr. Judy Kuriansky – Towers of Light Singing to Track

12:17 pm – 12:22 pm – Michele Delafab & Nohoku Dancing to Amazing Grace Singing to Track

12: 23 pm – 12:26 pm – Airman First Class Errol Rappaport – Operation Warrior Shield

12:27 pm – 12:30 pm Jonathan Granoff – Global Security Institute – Nuclear

12:31 pm – 12:34 pm Michele Bongiovanni – Heal our World and Music 4 Climate Justice,

12:35 pm – 12:38 pm Lowell Lewis – Luvien: The Guardian Collective

12:39 pm – 12:41 pm Brian Lo

12:42 pm – 12:45 pm Jorge Guinovart Alpha Coin/Alpha World

12:46 pm – 12: 47 pm Reid Stowe, World’s Longest Voyage at Sea, 1,152 Days

12:48 pm – 12:50 pm Choudri Barat, Barat Foundation, Animodules

12:51 pm – 12:53 pm Robert Forenza, Hugg A Planet

12:54 pm – 12:59 pm Cheyenne Elliott What the World Needs Now, Singing to Track, Cheyenne is Dionne Warwick’s Granddaughter.

12:59:30 pm – 1:00 pm Reverend Paul Sladkus Closing

Jonathan Granoff, President Global Security Institute, Representative to United Nations of the World Summits of Nobel, Senior Advisor Committee on National Security American Bar Association International Law Section. Fellow and Trustee of World Academy of Art and Science. Expert testimony before the US Congress and Parliaments of the UK and Canada and United Nations. More than 100 publications. He has received numerous awards, including, Rutgers University Law School Distinguished Alumni Award; American Bar Association Section of International Law Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020; International Film & TV Festival of New York1990 Silver Medal for Our Constitution: The Document that Created a Nation. Nobel Peace Prize Nominee for 2014. Vassar College, BA Cum Laude, 1970; Rutgers University School of Law, JD, 1976.

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