World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, 3 February 2023

As the world marked January 28th, 2023, the 20th anniversary of President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), an initiative in the United States that has saved 20 million lives by providing more that 100 billion dollars for AIDS prevention and treatment, we pray that people of good will will not take their feet off […]

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, October 20, 2022

Dearest Creator of all that is and ever will be. Guardian of Light. Giver of Breath. Judge of all deeds, seen and unseen. Infuse us with your love, gratitude, and peace. Let us feel safe in a world thriving in chaos and fear.  Help us to raise our children without prejudice. Teach us to teach […]

World News This Week in Prayer, Thursday, September 15, 2022

Divine One, as we look out upon your world and ours, it is so easy to see things which discourage and dismay us… The deaths last week on the James Smith Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada, with ten murdered, eighteen critically wounded and both perpetrators losing their lives. The on-going devastating results of climate […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, September 8, 2022

Holy One, there is a song haunting me lately. An evocative melody. A single soprano invokes, “Oh let all who thirst, let them come… to the water.” The first time I heard it, I wept. And lately I hear it often. Unsummoned, it echoes within my soul; a lament in layers of drought. Source of […]

World News This Week in Prayer – Thursday, September 1, 2022

As God’s beloved children, let us pray that Divine Light shine on the nations, the earth, and all those in need. For your beloved in war torn areas around the globe, and for areas like Ukraine and Palestine, where foreign occupiers are forcefully controlling villages and territories, we pray for peaceful paths toward justice; For […]

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, August 11, 2022

Writers note: As I faced writing these prayers, all that kept resonating through my mind was the hymn, “O God, Why Are You Silent” written by Marty Haugen and found in the Evangelical Lutheran Worship. The words of the first two verses resound in my breaking heart  (it can be sung to any 7676D hymn […]

World News This Week in Prayer- Thursday, March 31, 2022

Creator God, I am so privileged that I don’t know I am!   Living here in the first world it is striking to hear someone explain the difference between “relative poverty” and “absolute poverty.”   We pray that we are forgiven our attempts to pray for the whole world while neglecting to centre ourselves on You.  As the seasons […]