World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, March 4, 2021

As most of you know, World in Prayer is written by a team whose members take turns writing the prayers. And I, who am writing this week – I ran out of words a long time ago. Trapped in what seemed like near-isolation by the pandemic; anguished by its resulting ever-growing number of deaths and […]

World News this Week in Prayer, Thursday, February 26, 2021

God, in whom we live and move and have our being, there is nothing that separates us from you, your grace, and your love. And yet, sometimes it is so hard to trust that you are at work around and within us, especially this Lenten season when it feels as if we have never left […]

World News This Week in Prayer – February 18, 2021

I have decided to stick with love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.  Martin Luther King Oh Lord, your house is built with understanding and compassion – it is our quiet center.  If only we could grasp its power. In small agitations and overwhelming calamities, during times of lament and great injustices help […]

World News in Prayer – Thursday, 4th February 2021

“Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and strengthens the powerless. Even youths will faint and be weary, and the young will fall […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, 21 January 2021

This opening Litany of Praise is from the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity 2021 taken from the ecumenical service published by CTBI prepared by the The Monastic Community of Grandchamp. Switzerland.  Congregation: You who call us to be praise in the midst of the earth: glory to you! Reader 1: We sing your praise in the midst […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, January 14th, 2021

Dear God, Today we long to be held.  We long to be held, not by the hateful actions we see on our televisions.  Not by a virus that continually kills thousands upon thousands.  Not by our divisions and the things which cause us to break apart.  We long to be held by your unbreakable, unshakeable, […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, 7 January 2021

Editor’s note:  World In Prayer needs a few more writers and editors!  Our team consists of 12-15 volunteers, from several different countries and continents. Each week, one person writes the prayers in response to international news. A second person then edits and posts the prayers online.  Because we rotate who writes and edits, you would end up serving […]