World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

Prayers for Australia

Fire and water shape much of what is prayed for Australia: bushfires and heatwaves, floods, hail and cyclones. Asylum policy and offshore detention are named, along with violence against women and mining accidents, and there is regular thanksgiving for wildlife, reefs and species returning to the wild.

You Keep Track of Our Sorrows: Prayers for Daunte Wright, Afghanistan, and a Warming Earth (April 15, 2021)

O God, you come to us wherever and however we might be. No matter how much we may not believe it, we are worthy of your love and grace. Therefore, we uplift to you all of our raggedy and incomplete prayers to you—the ones that fall from our lips, the ones that remain hidden within […]

We Long to Hide: Prayers After the Atlanta and Boulder Shootings and for Myanmar (March 25, 2021)

Dear God, You know that we sometimes long to hide.  We long to hide from the things which make our world and communities profoundly suffer.  We long to hide from the people who hurt us and those we care about.  We wish we could hide from the mounting demands from our jobs, school, and the […]

What I See Outside My Window: Holocaust Remembrance, India’s Farmers, Syria (January 28, 2021)

God of all times and places, as we look out into your world we see so many different things: sun snow rain chaos silence hope fear peace violence justice faith oppression … The list goes on, and on, and on. As I gaze out my window today, I am reminded that what I see what […]

Lord, Rend the Heavens and Answer: Prayers for Gaza, Indonesia’s Disasters, and Syria’s Camps (January 21, 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 […]

A Different Kind of King: A Christ the King Prayer for Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and Tigray (November 19, 2020)

In 1925, Pope Pius XI established the Feast of Christ the King, also known as Christ the King Sunday, as a corrective to a major worldwide shift toward nationalism.  This feast day is included in the Revised Common Lectionary and is celebrated by most mainline Protestant denominational groups. O Christ, what can it mean for […]

Engraved Upon My Palms: Hyderabad’s Floods, Kilimanjaro’s Fire, and the Reef (October 15, 2020)

1 Thessalonians 5: 1 – 3 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters,  you do not need to have anything written to you.  For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.  When they say, ‘There is peace and security’, then […]

Your Glory Fills the Skies: Prayers for Yemen, Locust Swarms, and Monsoon Floods (July 23, 2020)

Ever-creating God, Your glory fills the skies, from the transient sparkle of the fleeting meteor to the unexpected spectacle of Comet Neowise; your glory fills the earth from mountain height to ocean depth.  We praise you. As difficult as it is to find words to express how much your glory thrills and excites us it […]

Jesus, Light of the World: A Prayer Against Racism and Injustice, from London to Navajo Nation (June 18, 2020)

What does the Lord ask of us? To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God.~ Micah 6 : 8 “My thoughts are not like your thoughts. And your ways are not like my ways,” announces the Lord. “The heavens are higher than the earth. And my ways are higher than your […]

Is There No Balm in Gilead: Prayers After George Floyd, for Cyclone Nisarga and a Grieving World (June 4, 2020)

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why has the healing of my dear people not come about?  ~ Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead, Holy God? For we, your people, desperately need a balm, a healing, a sense that the desperate pain we are feeling will come to […]

Help Us Get Our Responses Right: Cyclone Amphan, Michigan’s Dams, and Kabul (May 21, 2020)

Even as the world turns, it seems the world has stood still in the shock of the pandemic. But we know this is not truly so, even as we know that you, Lord, hold all in your hand and love what you have created. Science tells us that hurricanes and cyclones will continue to get […]