{"id":1139,"date":"2017-09-20T09:38:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investinpeace.tssef.se\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2017-09-20T09:38:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T07:38:25","slug":"prayers-for-peace-set-to-music-to-be-performed-in-assisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investorsinpeace.com\/?p=1139","title":{"rendered":"Prayers for Peace set to music to be performed in Assisi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope John Paul II<\/a>\u00a0organized the first World Day of Prayer for Peace in\u00a0Assisi<\/a>, Italy, on October 27, 1986. In all there were 160 religious leaders spending the day together with fasting and praying to their\u00a0God<\/a>\u00a0or Gods. They represented 32 Christian religious organizations and 11 other non-Christian world religions.<\/p>\n

Pope John Paul II, in October 27, 1986, invited representatives from 12 different religions to Assisi. Everyone was invited to bring a peace prayer from their tradition that was shared in conjunction with a ceremony. The Pope then invited another two meetings, 1993, after the war in Yugoslavia, and 2002 after the terrorist attacks in New York – then with a clear intention to gather to renounce war in the name of religion. Benedict XVI invited the fourth meeting in Assisi on October 27, 2011, 25 years after the first meeting.<\/p>\n

The 12 prayers have been set to music\u00a0by Swedish musician Peter Elmberg, in collaboration with Jan Eric Str\u00f6m and Lars Magnus \u00d6sterberg and presented in a variety of contexts in Norway and Sweden in recent years, and now scheduled to be performed in Assisi.<\/p>\n

Below is an excerpt from each of the prayers.<\/p>\n