World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, October 9, 2014

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014

The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard; yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of […]

World News This Week in Prayer Sept. 25, 2014

  “In the spring, when Kings go forth to war…..” (2 Samuel 11:1) Loving God, we look to your word for guidance, learning from the good and the bad, the best and the worst.  Sadly, we learn that war has been ever thus.  And here we are again.  We have learned that Kings and leaders […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, September 18, 2014

As the UN marks the International Day of Peace and the World Council of Churches invites us to join the International Day of Prayer for Peace this September 21st, let us pray for peace in our hearts and minds, in our families, in our communities, in our nations, and throughout the world. Our Lord Jesus […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014

So. Many. Words. On this, the anniversary of 9-11, so many prayers float across my screen. I want to take a bit from this one, a bit from that, serve them up, a full-course meal of prayer for those who died and those who lived the first responders then, and now, in so many places […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, September 4, 2014

O God of every tradition, we pray thy will be done. We are assaulted second by second throughout the 24-hour news cycle by words and images that describe so many ways in which it is not done: Nation and would-be nation bargain over beheaded journalists in the Middle East Nation and nation rattle sabers over […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday August 28, 2014

Gathered together, surrounded by the grace of the Holy One, we enter into this time of prayer seeking Divine wisdom and courage to live faithfully and justly. Let us join together in prayer. Creator God, we feel your Spirit move among us in the gentle breeze, in the ocean waves, and in the colors of […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, August 21, 2014

“I, along with St Paul, am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  (Rom 8: 38, 39) In […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, August 14, 2014

World in Prayer for August 14, 2014   (As I looked around me at our world this week, preparing to write these prayers, I found myself singing over and over the words to Marty Haugen’s wonderful hymn, “Healer of Our Every Ill”, and so I have incorporated them into the prayers for this week.)   […]