Editor’s note: 23 August is recognized by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) as the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. This date was chosen as an acknowledgement of the revolution in Saint Domingue, today the Republic of Haiti, that began in late August 1791 as a […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs., July 25, 2024
World in Prayer is seeking a few more volunteers to join our team! Each week, one writer compiles the news and crafts the accompanying prayers. The week’s editor checks the prayers for accuracy and coherence, then posts them on our website. Team members generally serve approximately once every 4-6 weeks. Requirements: an interest in international […]
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 […]
World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, May 2, 2024
God of all, my heart is full of wonder, as I consider the mysterious and magnificent ways your spirit and presence are at work in the world. In the beginning your spirit hovered over the churning chaos, and with a word you began to create order, to bring forth life, to create a hope where […]
World News in Prayer – Thursday, 30th November 2023
Editor: Shortly after the prayers were posted, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas broke down. In light of this, as duty editor, I have amended and re-posted our prayers.In the midst of chaos, I will be peace. In the heart of anger, I will be love. In the presence of despair, I will be hope. […]
World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, October 12, 2023
Psalm 1 (NRSVUE) 1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers, 2 but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law they meditate day and night. Holy One, as we look […]
World News This Week In Prayer – Thursday, September 28, 2023
Holy One, Divine Creator, whom some name God, we pray every week for so many things: for those suffering from effects of climate change and the earthquakes, the hurricanes, the super droughts, super fires, and the super floods; for children and women abused and sold and trafficked even in our modern era of development; for […]
World New This Week in Prayer – Thurs., August 17, 2023
Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon. Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, “Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is tormented by a demon.” But he did not answer her at all. And his disciples came and […]
World News in Prayer – Thursday, June 22 2023
Your creation is groaning, Living and Loving God. Your creation is groaning as your created ones continue to live in ways that damage the natural world and one another. Your creation is groaning, and so we turn to you with our cries of pain, certain we will be heard. We cry out today for the […]
World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, June 8, 2023
I love the LORD, because God has heard my voice and my supplications. Because God inclined God’s ear to me, therefore I will call on the Lord as long as I live. The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on […]
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