On this page you will find
- World Peace Day Messages
- Messages and prayers on war and peace
- Peace Encyclicals
World Peace Day Messages
Pope Leo
Full text 2026. Peace be with you all – unarmed and disarming peace
Pope Francis
Full text 2025 of World Peace Day Message Forgive us our trespasses – grant us peace
Full text 2024 of World Peace Day Message Artificial Intelligence and Peace
Full text 2023 of World Peace Day Message No one can be saved alone
Full text 2022 of World Peace Day Message Dialogue between generations: Education and work.
Full Text of 2021 World Peace Day message A culture of care as a path to peace
Full text of 2020 World Peace Day Message Peace as a journey of hope.
Full text of 2019 World Peace Day Message Good politics at the service of peace
Full text of 2018 World Peace Day message
Full text 2017 of World Peace Day Message
Full text of 2015 World Peace Day Message
Full text of 2014 World Peace Day Message
Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI
Full text of messages from 2013 – 2006 (Pope Benedict XVI)
Full text of messages from 2005 – 1979 (Pope John Paul II)
Full text messages from 1978-1968 (Pope Paul VI)
Messages and prayers on war and peace
- Pope Leo, Urbi et Orbi Easter Message, 2026 l Christ’s resurrection is the beginning of a new humanity; it is the entrance into the true promised land, where justice, freedom, and peace reign, where all recognize one another as brothers and sisters,
- Pope Leo, prayer for peace and disarmament, March 2026
- Pope Francis: Letter to the Bishop of Hiroshima on the Occasion of the G7 Summit, 19 May 2023
- Address of the Holy Father at the Peace Memorial (Hiroshima) 24 November, 2019
- Pope Francis: Message to the UN Conference to Negotiate a Legally Binding Instrument to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, 27-31 March 2017
- Pope Francis and the Arms Trade video from 2017
- Pope Francis Speech to US Congress in September 2015 ( includes video link)
- Remember victims of war and work for peace: Pope Francis, Kosovo, 6 June 2015
Peace Encyclicals
- Magnifica Humanitas (Pope Leo, 2026)
- Laudato Si, Care for our Common Home,(Pope Francis, June 2015 )
- Pacem in Terris, 1963 (Pope John VIII)
- On peace and Christian Reconciliation 1920 (Pope Benedict XV)
