President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday, at the maiden National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving, led Ghanaians to express gratitude to God for the peace, stability, and prosperity of the nation.

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In a world marked by growing tension, priests need to build peace and unity together by serving others, Pope Leo XIV said.

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The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.

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God is infinitely complex and can answer our prayers when He wishes to in ways He wishes to. Or He might as well ignore our prayers if we bombard Him with requests every five seconds. God blesses ...

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William F. Holland Jr., DD., C. ED.D. I receive questions about God and the Bible, and one of the more frequent is whether God really listens and answers prayer. We know He answers every request ...

A human win, where peace flows like a river in our souls and at the polls. A human win, “with liberty and justice for all.” A human win, where joy is unspeakable, and the glory is God’s.

Prayer need not be a poem or acrostic or hymn. Prayers can simply bubble up from the deepest place inside of yourself. It can be prayer in your own words. ... God can hear what is in our hearts.

Elsewhere, in the poem “Strong As Death” by Shlomit Naim Naor, we read that “God is hiding in a cellar, bereft of prayer, trembling for his deeds, his whole being is a scream.” ...