World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs. Sept. 10, 2015

Go down, Moses, way down in Egypt land. Tell all Pharaohs to, “let My people go.” Oh God, our God, and God of every suffering refugee, we join in prayer to ask for the wisdom and the courage to name the pharaohs that make life intolerable for so many people in the world. We recognize that: […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thurs., July 16, 2015

“Be still, and know that I am God!     I am exalted among the nations,     I am exalted in the earth.” -Psalm 46:10 (NRSV)   In the midst of the tasks of life, the busy-ness, the rush, the never-ending to-do lists, it is easy to lose sight of you, O God. Still us now, so that […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, July 2, 2015

How long, O Lord? Will you forget me for ever?     How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul     and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;     light […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, June 18, 2015

Well may the world go, The world go, the world go, Well may the world go, When I’m far away. — Pete Seeger (c. 1973) For months now, this has been my wake-up song, a conscious choice to spend my first moments of each day letting go of all I can’t control, of all I cannot […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, May 21, 2015

“Who is so hurt I may not know their heartache?” asks the old hymn I Would Be True. We pray today for the heartbreak of the world. For the heartbreak of those who struggle with over 100 thousand gallons of oil poured from a broken pipeline…who struggle with the devastating effects on one of the […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, May 7, 2015

In all our joys and in all our concerns, may we be ever mindful of the presentness of the sacred among us, and to see new possibilities of the now. Creativity God, be our guide in re-imagining our human institutions of government. As the United Kingdom‘s parliament undergoes a change and the United States continues to […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, April 30, 2015

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. – Romans 12: 12   I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding. -1 Cor 14: 14 – 16   Pray continually – 1 Thessalonians […]

World News This Week in Prayer – almost Easter, 2015

It is the in-between time. At my church, we have just ended the Maundy Thursday service, remembered Jesus’ institution of the first Eucharist, been commanded to love as he loves us, washed one another’s feet, then stripped the altar. Tonight, Jesus will spend in agonizing prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, and we, his disciples, will try […]

World News This Week in Prayer Thursday, 12 February 2015

As we prepare ourselves for the holy season of Lent, let us reflect in prayer on the words of our Lord Jesus Christ: that when we love the least of these, we love you, Lord. Help us to love the least of these in prison. We pray for prisoners throughout the world. We pray that […]