________________
All in Good Faith
AFFIRMATIONS I
READER: We think with compassion of all who have been bereaved, injured, or maimed by land mines.
ALL: May they find comfort.
READER: We think with compassion of communities divided by fear and hatred.
ALL: May they know peace.
READER: We think with gratitude of those who clear land mines and seek to ban them.
ALL: May they have courage.
WE COMMIT OURSELVES TO A CULTURE OF NON-VIOLENCE, RESPECT, JUSTICE, AND PEACE. WE SHALL NOT OPPRESS, INJURE, TORTURE, OR KILL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, FORSAKING VIOLENCE AS A MEANS OF SETTLING DIFFERENCES ...
WE INVITE ALL PEOPLE, WHETHER RELIGIOUS OR NOT, TO DO THE SAME. - Towards a Global Ethic: An Initial Declaration signed by leaders from all the world's faith
traditions, Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago, 1993.
THE WORLD IN ARMS IS NOT SPENDING MONEY ALONE. IT IS SPENDING THE SWEAT OF ITS LABOURERS,
THE GENIUS OF ITS SCIENTISTS, THE HOPES OF ITS CHILDREN.
- DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
PRAYER AND READING
Glory to God, creator of all, It is he who gives us life, he who gives us death. He is most high, omniscient.
God of creation, light of lights, created man to benefit from that light which is the mercy of the heavens and the earth.
God is the Peace that is a boon of Allah for all of humanity. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, 'A person's faith is expressed by three things: justice, charity, and peace.'
The believer prays, 'O God, you are Peace; lead us to your Paradise, the home of Peace.'
In this world their steps ne
In this world of divisions, atrocities, and wars, may the innocent be spared. Their hands are clean. May their steps never find the minefields of death and mutilation.
May we be horrified and forever haunted by the images of children torn apart, fitted with protheses, or bedridden for life. As long as humanity can even imagine such crimes, we call upon God to send us his justice and to protect us from evil.
God of all, ruler of humankind, protect us from evil, whether from humans or from the devil's temptation.
- Dr Dalil Boubakeur
- 152 -
