Prayers for Peace Across Traditions: Week of Prayer for World Peace 2025
Hindus for Human Rights is honored to take part in this year’s Week of Prayer for World Peace, an interfaith effort now in its 51st year. In collaboration with the Iona Community and Interfaith Alignment, we join hands with leaders from diverse spiritual and religious traditions to uplift a daily prayer for peace.
This year, voices from Hindu, Jewish, Sikh, Māori/Indigenous, Muslim, Bahá’í, Palestinian Christian, and Wiccan communities have come together to share words, songs, and images from the heart of their practice. Each day, one of these prayers will open online, available for anyone to revisit throughout the year. While one voice can never capture the richness of an entire tradition, each offering is shared in a spirit of humility and solidarity—with the awareness that countless prayers for peace are rising from communities not represented this time.
For us at Hindus for Human Rights, this initiative resonates deeply with our guiding values: shanti (peace), nyaya (justice), and satya (truth). True peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice, dignity, and compassion for all people. In a time when authoritarianism, ethnonationalism, and violence fracture our communities, interfaith solidarity reminds us that our struggles are intertwined—and that hope for a more just world is sustained when we pray, speak, and act together.
The Week of Prayer for World Peace is not only an invitation to turn inward in reflection but also a call to turn outward in commitment. As we listen to the prayers of others, we enrich our own practices and expand our imaginations for a future where peace and human rights are not privileges but shared realities.
You can explore these prayers directly by visiting: www.interfaithalignment.org/wpwp or using this QR code:
For communities wishing to embed them on their own websites, contact: www.interfaithalignment.org/contact
As we mark this special anniversary of the Week of Prayer for World Peace, may our shared prayers inspire real transformation—in our own hearts, in our communities, and in the world we are working to build. Together, across traditions and beyond them, we hold fast to the vision of a world grounded in peace, love, and justice.