Here are some prayers for peace from various traditions that you can use to pray for peace all around us:
1. **Christian Prayer**
*lord, make me an instrument of your peace:*
*Where there is hatred, let me sow love;*
*where there is injury, pardon;*
*where there is doubt, faith;*
*where there is despair, hope;*
*where there is darkness, light;*
*where there is sadness, joy.*
*O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek*
*to be consoled as to console,*
*to be understood as to understand,*
*to be loved as to love.*
*For it is in giving that we receive,*
*it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,*
*and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.*
*Amen.*
(St. Francis of Assisi)
2. **Jewish Prayer**
*Oseh Shalom bimromav,*
*hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu,*
*v'al kol Yisra'el v'imru amen.*
(May the One who makes peace in the high heavens, make peace for us, all Israel, and all the world, and we say, Amen.)
3. **Islamic Prayer**
*In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful*
*All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of all that exists,*
*The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,*
*The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense.*
*You are our Lord and to You we turn to,*
*Guide us to the straight way,*
*The way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace,*
*Not the way of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray.*
(Al-Fatihah, Qur'an 1:1-7)
4. **Buddhist Prayer**
*May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses.*
*May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free.*
*May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another.*
*May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wildernesses—the children, the aged, the unprotected—be guarded by benevolent celestials,*
*And may they swiftly attain Buddhahood.*
(Samantabhadra, the Buddha of Universal Goodness)
5. **Hindu Prayer**
*Om Dyauh Shaantirantarikssam Shaantih*
*Prthivii Shaantirapah Shaantiroshadhayah Shaantih*
*Vanaspatayah Shaantirvishve devaah Shaantirbrahma Shaantih*
*Sarvagam Shaantih Shaantireva Shaantih Saa Maa Shaantiredhi*
*Om Shanti Shanti Shanti*
(May peace radiate there in the whole sky as well as in the vast ethereal space everywhere.
May peace radiate out in the whole world.
May peace flow over the whole universe.
May peace be the peace situated in peace as well as in me.
Om peace, peace, peace.)
6. **Secular Prayer**
*May peace be our gift to one another,*
*May peace be our legacy to future generations,*
*May peace be our memorial,*
*Let peace prevail on Earth.*
(International Day of Peace)