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O God, grant us a humble heart...

With the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray for the churches and people of Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan.

Lord of life, God of love, here and now, I offer you my whole life...

With the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray for the churches and people of Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Taiwan.

Merciful God, you who saw the abused woman in her misery and rescued her…

This week, the first week of Advent, in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we are praying with the people and churches of Myanmar and Thailand.

In a time of physical distancing, let us unite our hearts and minds as we prayerfully seek to overcome Sexual and Gender-Based Violence together.

O Lord, open to us the gates of righteousness…

This week, on the first week of Advent, in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we are praying with the people and churches of Myanmar and Thailand.

In the context of the 16 Days against Gender-Based Violence, this week marks World AIDS Day (December 1), the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (2 December) and the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December).

 Hear us, O God…

In the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray this week with the people and churches of Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore.

From 25 November to 10 December, we also mark 16 Days against Gender-Based Violence.

In a time of physical distancing, let us unite our hearts and minds as we prayerfully seek to overcome Sexual and Gender-Based Violence together.

In the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray this week with the people and churches of Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore.

In a time of physical distancing, let us unite our hearts and minds as we prayerfully seek to overcome Sexual and Gender-Based Violence together.

Blessed Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in your holy presence, we adore you...

This week in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we are praying with the people and churches of East Timor (Timor Leste), Indonesia, and Philippines.

20 November also marks World Children’s Day.

O God,

you designed us in your likeness, inspire us to mould our lives

according to the grace and love that mirrors you...

This week in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we are praying with the people and churches of East Timor (Timor Leste), Indonesia, and Philippines.

Give us roots that love grows...

This week in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we are praying with the people and churches of East Timor (Timor Leste), Indonesia, and Philippines.

19 November marks World Toilet Day which celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 4.2 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.

God of travellers, migrants and refugees...

With the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for the churches and people of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Today's order of prayer also includes material published by the World YWCA and World YMCA for their World Week of Prayer and World Fellowship.

With the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle we pray for the churches and people of Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. Today's order of prayer also includes material published by the World YWCA and World YMCA for their World Week of Prayer and World Fellowship.

This week in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we are praying with the people and churches of Oceania.

This week in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we are praying with the people and churches of Oceania.

This week in the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we are praying with the people and churches of Oceania.

Interfaith Message on Just Finance, Debt and Reparations

16 October 2020

With the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, we pray for the churches and people of the Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago

Tribulation” is certainly an appropriate description for the previously unimaginable scale of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has affected almost everyone around the world, whether through the direct impacts on our health or the health of our loved ones, the sudden restrictions on all our movements, or the fear of the virus arriving in our lives.

From the Old Jerusalem to the New: Lamentations to Blessings, Bible study in times of COVID-19 by Annika Mathews

The heart’s conversation with God online - A reflection by Marianne Ejdersten, director of Communications for the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland. The article published in the Norwegian Magazine for pastors in June, 2020.

Facing the Red Sea: Overcoming Fear by Using Your Gifts, Bible study in times of Covid-19 by Joy Eva Bohol