The Assisi Prayer Meeting, October 1986

The famous picture of John Paul II bowed in intense prayer. Behind is a board bearing the words "peace" in all the languages of those assembled. Traditionalists argue that there can be no true peace in the world without Christ.

John Paul II at The Assisi Prayer Meeting, 1986

"The meeting held last October 27 in Assisi the city of St. Francis, in order to pray for and commit ourselves to peace - each one in fidelity to his own religious profession."

— John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 47.