International Day of Prayer & Peace
Churches representing over 560 million Christians world-wide are being invited to mark the UN International Day of Peace on 21st September as an International Day of Prayer for Peace.
Launched in 2004 by the World Council of Churches in the framework of its Decade to Overcome Violence: Churches Seeking Reconciliation and Peace (2001-2010), the initiative calls on Christian churches all over the world to arrange for services or vigils on 21 September, as well as to include prayers for peace in their services on the Sunday before or after that day.
The theme for this year’s International Day of Prayer for Peace is “Building communities of peace for all”. Churches from Asia, the region chosen as the special focus of the Decade to Overcome Violence during 2005, have proposed this theme. Christian churches world-wide are invited to include especially Christian and faith communities in the vast and diverse Asian continent in their prayers of intercession on that day.
More information and prayer resources are available at
www.overcomingviolence.org/peace2005