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Peace Education Program Helps Prisoners Find Inner Peace
Loaded on Oct. 31, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
The Peace Education Program is an international non-religious effort by The Prem Rawat Foundation to help prisoners throughout the world discover inner peace and translate the inner peace into outward expressions of peace. Prem Rawat started the foundation in 2001 to facilitate his life's purpose as an international ambassador …
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