World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, April 15, 2020

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 […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, 7 January 2021

Editor’s note:  World In Prayer needs a few more writers and editors!  Our team consists of 12-15 volunteers, from several different countries and continents. Each week, one person writes the prayers in response to international news. A second person then edits and posts the prayers online.  Because we rotate who writes and edits, you would end up serving […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, December 17, 2020

Come now, O Prince of Peace, make us one body. Come, O Lord Jesus, reconcile your people. – Geonyong Lee (Tune: OSOSO) With heavy hearts, we come to you during this time of waiting, this time of Advent as we prepare for the coming of the One who is God’s incarnated Love. Only this year, […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs., Dec. 10, 2020

Dear God, We know this above all things – your steadfast love endures beyond all things here on this earth and beyond this earth.  We know this, and yet we still struggle.  We know that we are your people, and we also know that you most certainly are our God. Although we know we can […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, 26 November 2020

Creator God, This year has been different.  We know you don’t need us to tell you that – but it helps to get it off our minds and you have broad shoulders to carry our burden. Easter was different, Eid and Diwali, too.  And now Thanksgiving and next it will be Christmas.  We know people’s […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, November 5, 2020

Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs., October 29, 2020

We meet you in prayer this day, asking for hope and guidance during these times of great uncertainty. We lift our hearts in prayer for all those protesting police brutality: In Philadelphia, PA, U.S., where Walter Wallace, Jr., a black man experiencing a mental health crisis, was shot and killed by police. In Nigeria amid […]

World News this Week in Prayer, Thursday, October 22, 2020

“I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 Dear God, Our world is changing in ways that we never imagined.  We are in need of your unwavering love. We live in a world which holds so […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs., October 8, 2020

Editor’s note:  World Teachers’ Day has been celebrated internationally on 5 October each year since 1994, commemorating the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers, which establishes standards for teacher rights and responsibilities, as well as teacher preparation and support.  This year’s theme, “Teachers:  Leading in Crisis, Reimaging […]