World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025

An interpretation, in prayer, of Madeleine L’Engle’s poem: “This Is No Time for a Child to Be Born” Christmas 1973 O, Word of words, you were here at the beginning and you are here with each of us through the short spans of life on this Earth. You know the giant arcs of time, and so […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025

“In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.” -Howard Thurman At least 1,300 people have been killed in floods that have ravaged southern Asia over the past few weeks, with hundreds more still missing and millions […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, November 20, 2025

Holy One, Eighty years ago this month France, the Soviet Union (now Russia) the United Kingdom, and the United States used the rule of law in setting up a tribunal called the Nuremberg trials.  Not outright execution (as was considered) but mindful prosecution brought justice as over two dozen Nazi leaders had their wartime crimes laid out in the light in that initial tribunal. We […]

World News This Week In Prayer, Thursday, November 13, 2025

Lover of all who are wounded, heal us. Lover of all who wound, forgive us.  Lover of all that is, save us.    We close our eyes and dream of a life where tenderness reigns, Where drops of dew caress our cheek in the morning And linens of the softest moss invite us into slumber  As the moon serenades us with her beauty.    We long […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, November 6, 2025

O, Lord, call us, awaken us, awaken us as you called your prophets to speak truth, your truth to this errant world. Amos, a shepherd and arborist, a pruner of trees, and a prophet speaking to power. Hear his words as a season of destruction and genocide flows around us. You trample on the heads […]

World News in Prayer – Thursday, 23rd October 2025

Compassionate God, We look to you today – the source of our strength and hope, Even as protests spread across the world, In Nepal, the Philippines, Indonesia, Kenya, Peru, and Morocco. Even as people – many of whom are young and perhaps idealistic, Take to the streets to stand against widening inequality, economic uncertainty, corruption, […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025

God of many names, May the beautiful diversity of the people created in your image remind us of the multiplicity of ways we can each experience you. Too often, we place ourselves into a category of us or them, not realizing that you are beyond us, with us, and within us, each of us, all […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025

Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. –St. Teresa of Avila (16th Century) One […]