World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

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 This Week in Prayer – Thursday, March 27, 2025

The author of this week’s prayer writes, “Last week, our church hosted clergy from India, Holland, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic for an international meeting.  I welcomed them with a sign listing their names and unsorted flags and invited observers to connect the national flag to each name.  When some nations appear to want to […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, December 5, 2024

Attentive Nervous Thoughtful Incarnation Concerned Immanuel Preparing Awaiting Testify Expecting The season of Advent, literally “the coming,” holds special significance for many anticipating justice. The United Nations reports that 117.3 million people are currently displaced from their homes due to war, environmental disasters, and political instability.  People from Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, […]

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 News This Week in Prayer- February 23, 2023

“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.” – Jimmy Carter Oh, Lord, you shepherd us. You follow us. You lead us through the fog of our times. We get caught up in fear and weighed down by seemingly eternal prejudices. As we enter this Lenten season […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Christmas 2022

A CHRISTMAS BLESSING by Christine Valters Paintner online Abbess at AbbeyoftheArts.com Reproduced with permission This blessing dances at the doorway of light and dark, knows both as sacred: fertile womb space, miracle of blooming. This blessing breathes through those moments of labor when you too birth the holy into this fragile, luminous, hurting world as Mary […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, August 18, 2022

Holy One, In these times, with the world news heavily upon us, we reflect upon words from 2 Timothy: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.”   (New Living Translation) Ten years ago, speaking in New York (U.S.), Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie said that […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, June 9, 2022

Eternal God. . . Love’s trinity, self perfect, self sustaining; Love which commands, enables and obeys. . . We praise and thank you that you love and care for all people. In your love enable us to hear what you say and obey your command to love one another. In love of one another we […]