The Embassy for World Peace would like to extend its sincerest appreciation for your continued support.  Your contributions allow us to continue the fight of promoting religious freedom throughout the world.  It is because of supporters such as you that we are able to maintain a presence in the Nation's Capital, Washington, DC. The Embassy is supported by individual contributions and foundation grants.  As a non-profit foundation chartered under the laws of the District of Columbia, we have set guidelines to keep the administrative and operating expense percentages under 10% and salaries under 25%. Television airtime expense is contributed, as well as fundraising expense. The only hard cost is for facility expense, travel expense, television/radio production, and distribution. The Embassy has been able to operate its mission with gifts in kind and a full volunteer staff who donate their time and talents.  Therefore, all donations are investments because our goal is to build a self-sustaining global movement resulting in its effort to maintain peace by defending religious freedom, preserving America, defending Israel, and defeating racial terrorism and genocide. Second, Why Donate? It is essential that the world community play an active part in international peace building.  The challenges we face are many: totalitarian states, ethnic and religious strife, Jihad terrorism, genocide, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction all pose significant challenges to peace. The resulting suffering and destabilization of societies make effective forms of managing conflict imperative. The Embassy for World Peace meets this imperative with principles based on the Kingdom of God.    Making an investment in the Embassy enables us to fulfill the crucial mission to reach the global community. Currently, there is the immediate need to acquire two buildings which will house our national center for advancing the study and practice of conflict management and peacebuilding. Our current ambassador’s office is located in the Kalorama Embassy section at DuPont Circle—the new location is on the same street and will provide our official embassy headquarters, working space for our WorldEmbassyLeadershipCenter, and WorldEmbassyPrayerTower. Your investment is also a powerful and lasting affirmation of the commitment to protecting religious freedom which will foster a more peaceful world. With your investment we are forming an active global partnership for human dignity. Democracy, Human Rights, Religious Freedom and Tolerance Few philanthropic opportunities allow donors to contribute in such a tangible way to so important a cause. Your investment will help prevent conflicts from turning violent—and when fighting does occur, it will help ensure there will be efforts for peace making through diplomatic negotiations.   Ethnic and religious indifferences indicate the need for renewed inter-religious cooperation. The Embassy is furthering strong partnerships with government and religious leaders to promote democratic and religious freedom, combat the genocide of human beings, and build inter-religious tolerance, and to prevent religiously-rooted conflict. Today, the Embassy is working with government leaders to promote freedom, human rights, democracy, and peace between North Korea, South Korea and the United States. Why the work of the Embassy is vital! ·        There are approximately 100 nascent, active, or post-conflict situations in the world today. ·        In the 20th century, an average of 940,000 people died due to conflict every year. ·        Since the start of this century, an average of 2,738 people have been driven from their homes by conflict every day. ·        The average economic cost of a civil war is $64 billion. ·        Over the past decade, 2 million children have been killed by armed conflict, 1 million orphaned, 6 million disabled, and 10 million impacted with severe psychological trauma. ·        For every violent death in conflict, there are an estimated 10 “indirect deaths” due to war-exacerbated factors such as malnutrition. ·        In 2006, 64.5% of the world’s population felt the effects of armed conflict. ·        We are living in a period marked by extraordinary ethnic, political, and religious strife, all the more destabilizing because of globalization and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. ·        Billions of dollars are invested annually to sustain our capacity for warfare. We need a comparable investment in peace.  Investing in the Embassy for World Peace is a good start.   (These statistics are provided by the government agency: the United States Institute for Peace) The commitment to human dignity is at the core of the Embassy’s value systems and this gives rise to a common agenda for action to promote religious freedom, justice, religious and ethnic tolerance, liberty, respect for women and children and for the rule of law. The Embassy for World Peace is a non-profit foundation conducting a global mission from the nation’s capital, which operates under the direction of founding president, Rev. Ruth Schofield, who serves as its ambassador to the nations.  Contact Us At:  P. O. Box 5649, Washington, D.C.  20016-1249   Telephone:  (202)641-5308    Email:  Info@embassyforpeace.org