World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer, Thursday, April 16, 2026

Easter God, In this change of seasons, for some autumn, for others springtime, may it be a time of new beginnings, We realize that oftentimes the news tells us a different story. When we read the news, We often feel it is still full of death and decay, As if we remained in the tomb […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, May 1, 2025

I am about to create new heavens       and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered       or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever       in what I am creating… – Isaiah 65:17-18 Behold the newness of the season – the flowers bursting […]

World News in Prayer – Thursday, 23rd January 2025

Writer’s Note:  Every year, the northern hemisphere recognizes a Week of Prayer for Christian Unity between 18 January and 25 January.  This focus on Christian unity recognizes Jesus’ prayer in John chapter 17 that the church “may all be one … so that the world may believe.”  For 2025, Christians around the world were encouraged […]

World News this Week in Prayer, Thursday, October 3, 2024

We center ourselves in prayer with you O Lord. The feast day of Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is October 4.  We pray on how he modelled humility, concern for poor people; practicing a vow of poverty, peace and nonviolence, and care for creation for generations to come. Born into a wealthy Italian merchant family, Francis […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, August 29, 2024

The Season of Creation – celebrated annually by many  Christian denominations from September 1 (the Day of Prayer for Creation) through October 4 (the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi) – invites us to see the divine presence in all of creation. It invites us to listen deeply to the cries of the earth and […]

World News This Week in Prayer, Thursday, August 8, 2024

O Lord, We grow in our awareness of you as we enter this time of prayer. You never leave any one of us. We are grateful for your enduring love. Help us to remember that all are your beloved children. God, there are times when we are not our best selves. Help us to become […]

World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, July 4, 2024

Holy one of fire and transformation, O lord, upon us is the unfolding travesty begun more than fifty years ago with the U.S. intervention and destabilization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The news today reports of the world’s largest humanitarian crises as fighting and defending the mineral extraction industry in the east by […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, June 13, 2024

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.” -Esther 4:14 God of our lives,   We come to you with hearts […]