World in Prayer

Sharing in God’s loving compassion for all

How Beautiful on the Mountains: Good News from Guatemala’s Seed Banks to Iceland’s Ramps (April 30, 2026)

“How beautifully on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, ‘Your God reigns!’” Isaiah 52:7 In a world where war and other forms of violence touch the lives of the innocent, the fallen, the courageous, and the […]

Ashes and Renewal: A Lenten Prayer for Nations at War and for Rev. Jesse Jackson (February 19, 2026)

Heavenly Father, Having just observed the holy day of Ash Wednesday – as we enter the sacred season of Lent – we come before You in humility. The ashes that marked us, remind us we are dust, and to dust we shall return. Strip away our pride, our distractions, and our indifference. Create in us clean hearts, O God, […]

Blessed Are Those Who Have Regard for the Weak: Prayers for Disaster, Hunger, and Healing (February 12, 2026)

Oh, God of Light and Creator of the universe, shine on us as we pray for your intervention and healing for all mankind. Give us faith and comfort us while we wait upon answered prayers, for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. In these times of extreme distress, we offer powerful prayers by David, the Psalmist, […]

Repairers of the Breach: A Prayer for Every Continent, from Africa to Antarctica (February 5, 2026)

Editor’s note: This may not be ‘the usual’ but it most definitely IS World in Prayer -including us all. The Lord will guide you continually     and satisfy your needs in parched places     and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden,     like a spring of […]

Persistent in Hope: Prayers for Madagascar, Alaska, and a Fragile Ceasefire (October 16, 2025)

God of many names, May the beautiful diversity of the people created in your image remind us of the multiplicity of ways we can each experience you. Too often, we place ourselves into a category of us or them, not realizing that you are beyond us, with us, and within us, each of us, all […]

Prayers on the Day of Peace: Typhoon Ragasa, Justice for Women, and the Imprisoned (September 25, 2025)

Loving God, We come before you today knowing that we do not always have the words or even know how to pray when life feels heavy. For many of us, despite knowing your existence, and your unfailing love and compassion on your people, it’s hard to see your handprints in a world that is chaotic, […]

Watch Over Your Children: A Prayer of Anger and Trust for All Nations (July 3, 2025)

A note from this week’s writer: These aren’t the prayers I woke up thinking I would write this week. These aren’t even the prayers I particularly want to pray. But maybe – just maybe – after the U.S. government today proved it only cares about making the richest even richer and more powerful at the […]

Here Am I, Send Me: A Prayer on 18 Billion Dollars, Election Spending and Global Inequality (November 7, 2024)

Great Mystery, In the first waking moments of the day, it feels like the world is soft, untrammeled, freshly made and yet soon it seems to twist and turn surprising us, horrifying us, challenging us, asking us “who are we listening to?”  From Isaiah 6:8 these words:  Then I heard the voice of the Lord […]

In the Way of Saint Francis: Prayers for the World’s Poorest Nations and 120 Million Displaced (October 3, 2024)

We center ourselves in prayer with you O Lord. The feast day of Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is October 4.  We pray on how he modelled humility, concern for poor people; practicing a vow of poverty, peace and nonviolence, and care for creation for generations to come. Born into a wealthy Italian merchant family, Francis […]