World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News in Prayer this Week – Thursday, April 2, 2026

Note from this week’s writer: I cannot separate Easter Day from Good Friday. One without the other is senseless to me. When I read or hear the news from around the world, there is always a mixture of the bleakness and helplessness of Good Friday and the hope and joy God brings out of chaos, […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, March 19, 2026

O God, you created us all in your image and declared us good, yet we question your judgment and act as though some lives are worth less than others. Our hearts are so often heavy with the news of the world, yet we do not carry it alone. Let us know that Jesus weeps with […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, March 12, 2026

We come before You with heavy hearts as war spreads and many lives are shaken. Many of David’s psalms called out to the Lord for protection, strength and victory against his enemies – we pray for divine peaceful intervention during this conflict. David trusted God and called upon the Lord to defend and scatter foes. […]

World News in Prayer – Thursday, March 5, 2026

Holy One, whose tender mercy walks with us on our Lenten journey, we find the wilderness of our world both confusing and full of wonder. In this season of Lent, remind of us of the pilgrimage Christ made to the Cross, while we also walk alongside our global family filled with refugees, those holding pain […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, February 19, 2026

Heavenly Father, Having just observed the holy day of Ash Wednesday – as we enter the sacred season of Lent – we come before You in humility. The ashes that marked us, remind us we are dust, and to dust we shall return. Strip away our pride, our distractions, and our indifference. Create in us clean hearts, O God, […]

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, September 18, 2025

Spirit God, Breathe your calm, loving, hopeful breath into a hurting world. Both the places and people we know are hurting as well as the hurting spaces unknown to us, teach us to care for the whole world and everything in it. May your love, the love, go out into the hearts of all of your people. […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, September 4, 2025

The LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. – Psalm 121:8 God of Memory, hear our prayers, Hear our prayer among the dailiness of our lives wherever we make our home on this earth, wherever we walk our dogs, tend our gardens, scrub our pots and pans, read our books, receive our […]