Prayers for Societal Challenges
 

• Prayer for Those Murdered and Injured in Orlando. Florida
  Lord. we we ask you to welcome all those who have been murdered in Orlando into the eternity of you love .Please help those who have been injured and comfort the family members and friends of those who have been shot.  May the blood of those who have died by violence spur those living amidst bloodshed and violence to work for peace and justice for all people and an end of terrorism, we pray to the Lord.
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• Prayer to End Violence
  For all who live amidst bloodshed and violence: that the blood of those who have died may spur the living to work for peace and justice for all people
  and an end to terrorism, we pray to the Lord.
• Prayer for Children
  God of love,
  hear the cries of children around the world.
  Hear the mourning, screams, silent voices of fear and pain.
  How many tears and how much more blood
  will bring us a sense that we are all your children,
  no matter what race, nationality, religion, class and gender?
  God of mercy,
  forgive our sins of selfishness and insecurity
  that make us seek self-protection
  and power over others first.
  Grant us courage today
  to listen to your call of protecting, nurturing, and loving
  the most vulnerable ones among us
  so that we may be a messenger of your peace in the world.
  by Rev. Hikari Kokai Chang, Regional Missionary, Wesley Foundation in Japan
• Prayer for Migrants
  For all those who see “home” and all it means
  Disappear behind them;
  For all those who cannot see a home
  In the days ahead of them;
  For all those who dwell in
  Daily insecurity;
  For all those who are weary and
  Without a safe place to rest their heads;
  For all families in migration we pray.
  May the image of the Holy Family
  Fleeing oppression stay with us as we enter a New Year,
  And stay with us each night as we are blessed
  With returning to a home.
  May we also be blessed
  With compassion for those
  Still weary, still seeking,
  Still with so far to go.
  by Jane Deren, 2007
• Prayer for Women Who Are Immigrants and Seek Refuge
  God, you who guided Naomi and her family to look for bread in Moab, a foreign land, protect the women everywhere who have to leave behind their home or homelands so that they and their families can survive. May those who are escaping the ravages of war find shelter and sustenance. May the land in which they seek refuge welcome them and treat them with hospitality. May those who are seeking to stop the threats of violence against them find a peaceful and healing place. Help them hold on to their hope for a new beginning. And may those who are fleeing from the famines that starve them and their children find relief from their painful and debilitating hunger. May they find food both for their journey and for their bodies. You who guided Ruth to go to the Promised Land, grant that, like her, women may be lifted from the fields where they harvest to be part of royal lineage. And grant that we who are the spiritual descendants of those of old who were told that the holiest of trinities was made of the widow, the orphan and the migrant, be given the courage to see your face, your real presence, in the faces of women who have great need.
  Amen.
  Adapted from a prayer by Reverend Ignacio Castuera Gracious
• Prayer for Child Syrian Refugees
  We pray to the Lord to end the abuse of Child Syrian refugees in Turkey and for all other abused children throughout the world.

Pray for Priest Kidnapped in Yemen
• Please join us in prayer: Zika epidemic in Colombia infects thousands of pregnant women
• Prayer for Nations Facing a Debt Crisis