[…] anger and fear. Lord, have mercy and enable us to do Your will. In the stillness we name before You, the primal pain of so many in: Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Gaza, South Sudan, Afghanistan where the Taliban is to resume stoning women to death, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, South […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, March 14, 2024
[…] agony, from places of peace seeking more peace, guide our prayers: Lord, make us instruments of your peace: In all countries with armed conflict. Palestine and Israel, Ukraine and Russia, many countries in Africa, India, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Mexico, and Colombia. where there is hatred, let me sow love; in India, where Parliament […]
World News this Week in Prayer – February 8, 2024
[…] world where extreme violence is a daily burden: In Gaza and Israel as a cease-fire was just rejected. May the path to lasting peace be opened. In Ukraine, where Russia has increased airstrikes in the last few days. May the path to lasting peace be opened. For Pakistan where a bomb blast has killed […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs., Feb. 1, 2024
[…] respect those who offer their life to tell our stories. Lord have mercy. It is reported that Hungary continues to block the European Union on support for Ukraine. The U.S. support for Ukraine is also stymied in a recent budget process. Russia and Ukraine in the meantime have swapped over 200 prisoners of war […]
World News This Week In Prayer, Thursday, January 25, 2024
[…] we look upon the suffering of your beloved people and the ways we pit ourselves against one another: The devastating mix of war, poverty and winter in Ukraine and Russia, Israel and Gaza, Palestine. Heavy fighting in Somalia after an al-Shabab attack. Deadly ethnic and religious clashes in Nigeria. Cartel battles in southern Mexico, […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Christmas 2023
[…] Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam Yemen Zambia, Zimbabwe _______________________________________________ Photo of light breaking through clouds taken by […]
World News This Week in Prayer, Thursday, December 21, 2023
[…] though we are hidden from your sight. As we scan the headlines we see a world that is broken, fragmented, shattered by war and conflict. We name Ukraine entering its 665th day fighting Russia. We remember the suffering in Yemen with 233,000 deaths, including 131,000 from indirect causes such as lack of food, health […]
World News in prayer this week – Thursday, December 14, 2023
[…] experiencing war, including: Israel and Palestine, where the war seems to keep intensifying, and where newborns in Gaza face steeper and steeper odds of survival; Russia and Ukraine, where 53 people, including six children, were just wounded by Russian missile strikes in Kyiv; and the ongoing conflict in Congo, where millions have been displaced, […]
World News in Prayer- Thursday, November 16, 2023
[…] when nothing seemed to be coming together and everything falling apart – of domination and oppression. Here we are 2000 years later calamity upon calamity war in Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Israel, Russia – death, oppression, destruction, armament, abandonment of dialogue, borders with wire and walls, guards, roving lights. Help us with our words […]
World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, November 9, 2023
[…] States where Jews and Muslims have been targets of hate-crimes. In Myanmar where fighting has broken out and in Sudan where there have been ethnic killings. In Ukraine as the cold of winter sets in and violence continues. On the United States border as a growing migrant caravan comes from Central America, South America […]
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