Here you will find a collection of meditations and prayers written by both members of Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice and from others around the world.

World Peace Day Sing Along

World Peace Day Sing Along!

World Peace Day Sing Along! Sunday, Sept 21: the U.N. International Day of Peace @ 2pm  Mitchell Park ‘Sunken Bowl’ Multi-Purpose Area* (*Click here for map of park; see “Multi-Purpose Area” circled.) On the U.N. International Day of Peace let’s sing for peace, sing for justice, sing for humanity! Everyone...

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Peaceful Presence

A monthly prayer service on the evening of the 11th of each month, offering a time of quiet multifaith prayers for peace and justice and strength for the journey.

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Prayer for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons (part of the United Religions Initiative) wondered… When a former Secretary of State, a former Secretary of Defense, several United States Ambassadors, a famous physicist, and a few friends pray each month for the elimination of nuclear weapons, it raises lots of...

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Holi Prayer for Love, Renewal and Justice

Holi is a Hindu rite of Spring that commemorates both the changing seasons and the struggle for love and justice in dark times. While Holi was in March, may this prayer offers all of us inspiration.(Learn more about the Hindu stories mentioned in this prayer on this post from the...

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Our Faiths Call Us in this Time

Quakers (Society of Friends) “We are not for names, nor men, nor titles of Government,nor are we for this party or against the other…but we are for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom,that these may be exalted in our nationand that goodness, righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace,and unity with...

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“White nationalism is the greatest threat to peace”

Fr. Bryan Massingale, a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, theologian, scholar, activist and professor, insisted that, “the greatest threat to peace in our time, both nationally and even internationally, is the rise of white nationalism.” He explained this is so because white nationalism, “is intersectional, threatening social stability and human flourishing...

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