The World Peace Prayer Society awarded the Peace Pole to the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends on May 23 at the United Nations, in New York City. The Circle of Friends, with more than 3,000 communities, is one of the world’s largest nonprofit organizations dedicated to spiritual healing, based on the work of Bruno Groening, a German faith healer who became internationally known through miraculous healings during the 1940s.

Peace Poles are recognized as prominent international symbols of the oneness of humanity and monuments to peace. In every world language they bear the message: “May peace prevail on Earth.” More than 200,000 Peace Poles have been dedicated in nearly every country worldwide.

The Tucson Circle of Friends will meet from 3-4:30 p.m., July 20, at the University of Arizona Medical Center. For more information, call Evey Weissman at 520-904-4801 or visit Bruno-groening.org/English.