War causes endless suffering.<\/p>\n
Locally, where people experience gun violence, rape, death and displacement; regionally, where the use of mines, heavy equipment and attacks on heavy industry contaminates the habitats of future generations; and globally, where inflation and rising food prices add to the hardship of those affected by other conflicts, wars and climate change.<\/p>\n
In memory of all those directly and indirectly affected by this war, which is contrary to international law<\/p>\n
we pray:<\/p>\n
\u201cTurn from your evil ways! Why will you die?\u201d (Ezekiel 33:11)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cDeliver us from evil.\u201d (Matthew 6:13)<\/em><\/p>\n God of just peace,<\/p>\n we flee to you with our worries, our fears and our helplessness in the face of the destruction, the displacement, the rapes, the killings in Ukraine.<\/p>\n God of just peace,<\/p>\n we pray for all the people of Ukraine and Russia, including those who are fleeing the war.<\/p>\n Let them not despair \u2013 and let us help where we can.<\/p>\n God of just peace,<\/p>\n we pray for all Christian communities in Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n Make them messengers and instruments of Your peace, not of war!<\/p>\n Let their light and witness shine in the darkness.<\/p>\n God of just peace,<\/p>\n we pray for all those who, in the midst of war courageously witness and walk the path of nonviolence.<\/p>\n Strengthen them and protect them \u2013 and let us help where we can.<\/p>\n God of just peace,<\/p>\n we pray for all those who refuse to go to war.<\/p>\n Let them find refuge \u2013 and let us help where we can.<\/p>\n God of just peace,<\/p>\n we pray for all those who now feel they must fight with arms – willingly, tempted, forced or even unknowingly.<\/p>\n Be near to them in their fears and in their dying or their return, wounded in body and soul.<\/p>\n God of just peace,<\/p>\n we pray for those in power in Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n Let them seek and find nonviolent ways to silence the guns. – and let us help where we can.<\/p>\n God of just peace, we pray for those who govern here and in all countries.<\/p>\n Let them seek and find nonviolent ways to silence the guns \u2013 and let us help where we can.<\/p>\n God of just peace,<\/p>\n we pray for ourselves.<\/p>\n Let us not go astray by becoming part of a logic of hate and violence,<\/p>\n \u201cLet us not fall into temptation\u201d,<\/p>\n but \u201cDeliver us from evil.\u201d<\/p>\n We ask in the name of Jesus, whom we follow in the way of just peace.<\/p>\n Amen.<\/p>\n\u201cDeliver us from evil.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n
\u201cDeliver us from evil.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n
\u201cDeliver us from evil.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n
\u201cDeliver us from evil.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n
\u201cDeliver us from evil.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n
\u201cDeliver us from evil.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n
\u201cDeliver us from evil.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n
\u201cDeliver us from evil.\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n