Spirit of the living God,Come afresh on your holy land.Help your people to restore broken relationships.Give them patience to break down barriers of suspicion and mistrust;ability to discern personal prejudices and the courage to overcome fear.Teach them to respect each other’s integrity and rightsso that your kingdom may be established on earth.For Jesus’ sake. – […]
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O God of peace, you have established Jerusalem as the Lord’s House and a place of peace, and you have called on all who live there to love you and prosper. Instill in her inhabitants – Jews, Christians and Muslims – a hunger for justice and dignity and a resolve to end the distrust that […]
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In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful: Guide us on the straight way, the way of those whom thou has blessed. Help us so that we do not transgress the bounds of what is right and lawful. Take us out of deep darkness into light. Make us not bear burdens which […]
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Two peoples, one land,Three faiths, one root,One earth, one mother,One sky, one beginning, one future, one destiny,One broken heart, One God.We pray to You: Grant us a vision of unity.May we see the many in the one and the one in the many.May you, Life of All the Worlds, Source of All Amazing Differences help […]
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Lord God, we turn to you in these trying hours when conflict is a daily reality for our sisters and brothers in Israel and Palestine. We promise you to work to our utmost for peace and reconciliation in the region. But we know we cannot do it alone. We very much need the strength of […]
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O God Source of Life, Creator of Peace. . . Help Your children, anguished and confused, to understand the futility of hatred and violence and grant them the ability to stretch across political, religious and national boundaries so they may confront horror and fear by continuing together in the search for justice, peace and truth. […]
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Sustain together in undiminished hope, O God of hope, those who continue to labor with undiminished determination to build peace in the land from which, of old, out of brokenness, violence and destruction, nevertheless hope emerged for so many of faith. . . . Bless all the spiritual seed of Abraham together with the light […]
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Father of all mercies, we pray for the families who have fled their homes in fear. We lift up the mothers and fathers who have escaped with only their children, leaving everything else behind. Their country has changed, their lives will never be the same and they are afraid of the future. Lord, you are […]
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God of all creation, bring justice and peace to our world.Teach us to be peacemakers. Guide us in our pursuit ofjustice and the common good. Inspire us to welcome all, forgiveall, and love all. Direct us as we walk in the shadow of Jesus: theWay, the Truth, and the Life. Inspire us to perceive the […]
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Almighty God!After almost a century of mistrust and fratricide,you inspired Jews, Christians, and Muslimsto take the path of reconciliation in the Middle East…We ask for your forgiveness, O God,yet we find it hard to forgive our past enemies.May Your Words touch those who still stray in the wilderness of vengeful violence,forgetting your command to “forgive […]
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