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A Prayer for Peace, Justice and the Healing of the Nations
God of all peoples and generations,
God whose heart breaks with every mother who mourns,
God who watches over every shattered city and every terrified child –
Hear our cry.
In this moment of violence and fear,
stretch your protecting hands over the Middle East,
over every land where missiles fall,
over every border where hatred grows,
over every home where families tremble.
Lord, have mercy.
We pray for the innocent and the vulnerable –
for those who have not chosen this path yet bear its highest costs.
Wrap them in your powerful protection.
Hold their fear in your loving embrace.
Guard their lives with your gentle compassion.
Christ, have mercy.
We pray for leaders and nations –
break the pride that seeks victory through destruction and at all costs,
shatter the arrogance that trusts in weapons more than wisdom,
and stir in every heart the reverence and respect for human life
that cannot be ignored or silenced.
Lord, have mercy.
We pray for peace that does not deny justice,
for justice that does not require revenge,
for reconciliation that is more resilient than the history of wounds.
Let swords be beaten into ploughshares.
Let rhetoric surrender to dialogue.
Let fear be overcome by hope.
Let hatred yield to love.
Spirit of God, move among us.
Make us instruments of your peace, witnesses of your truth,
bearers of your light in a world shadowed by conflict.
We pray for the healing of every nation, the mending of every heart
and the dawning of the peace that passes all understanding.
In the name of Jesus Christ,
the Prince of Peace, the Lover of Sinners, the Pilgrim Neighbour.
Amen.
The Revd Dr Vincent Jambawo
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