{"id":54,"date":"2009-09-18T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/09\/sign-on-for-a-minute-of-peace.html"},"modified":"2009-09-18T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T16:14:12","slug":"sign-on-for-a-minute-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/09\/sign-on-for-a-minute-of-peace.html","title":{"rendered":"Sign On for a Minute of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationaldayofpeace.org\/\">United Nations&#8217;&nbsp;International Day of Peace<\/a>, and events are planned around the world. One of them is &#8220;A Million Minutes for Peace,&#8221; an effort to have as many people as possible pray or send good thoughts at noon on Monday September 21st&#8211;a&nbsp;60-second blessing&nbsp;for global harmony.<\/p>\n<p>You can sign the multi-faith&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/live.faithstreams.com\/site\/prayer_pledges\/register\">pledge for peace<\/a>&#8221; here&#8211;the idea is to get one million people to promise to send this prayer. Check out this moving video, below, of young people encouraging the pledge. One man says, &#8220;I believe prayer connects people of all faiths.&#8221; Your prayer can be super simple, like: &#8220;May peace prevail on earth.&#8221; If it&#8217;s true what they say about thoughts affecting reality, this is a powerful gesture to a violent world. And of course it&#8217;s also about raising awareness and getting people involved. 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