The World Day of Prayer is an international ecumenical Christian laywomen's initiative. It is run under the motto "Informed Prayer and Prayerful Action"...

A Day of Prayer is a day allocated to prayer, either by leaders of religions or the general public, for a specific purpose. Such days are usually ecumenical...

The National Day of Prayer is an annual day of observance designated by the United States Congress and held on the first Thursday of May, when people...

the Prayer of Saint Francis (or Peace Prayer, or Simple Prayer for Peace, or Make us an Instrument of Your Peace) is a widely known Christian prayer for...

Fixed prayer times, praying at dedicated times during the day, are common practice in major world religions such as Islam, Judaism, and Christianity....

Prayer in the Catholic Church is "the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God." It is an act of the moral virtue...

asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter. The prayer has achieved very wide distribution,...

which the prophet Daniel prays thrice a day. The early Christians thus came to recite the Lord's Prayer thrice a day at 9 am, 12 pm, and 3 pm, supplanting...

or twice a day, and may not be required to recite a specific text. Traditionally, three prayer services are recited daily: Morning prayer: Shacharit or...

The Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel usually refers to one specific Catholic prayer to Michael the Archangel, among the various prayers in existence...

require some special array of gifts or talent for their observance. In his message for the 2016 World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Francis...

service consists of several parts including ritual washing, chants, recitation of scripture and prayer, and sermons. Youm Jumu'ah ("day of congregation")...

The Maghrib prayer (Arabic: صلاة المغرب ṣalāt al-maġrib, "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers), and contains three cycles...

atonement and repentance. The day's main observances consist of full fasting and asceticism, both accompanied by extended prayer services (usually at synagogue)...

The fajr prayer, alternatively transliterated as fadjr prayer, and also known as the subh prayer, is a salah (ritual prayer) offered in the early morning...

to pray. Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew, and a shorter...

The Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem is a prayer meeting organized by Pentecostal evangelists Jack W. Hayford and Robert Stearns through their...

The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (often abbreviated as IDOP) is an observance within the Christian calendar in which congregations...

Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication. In the narrow sense, the term...

Datagram Protocol, a datagram-oriented element of the Wireless Application Protocol suite World Day of Prayer, an international ecumenical Christian laywomen’s...

Asr prayer (Arabic: صلاة العصر ṣalāt al-ʿaṣr, "afternoon prayer") is one of the mandatory five daily Islamic prayers. The Asr prayer consists of four...

"World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation", to be celebrated annually on September 1, in line with the Orthodox Church’s day for the protection of...

Prayer in a certain direction is characteristic of many world religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith. Jews traditionally...

non-Christian versions Litany Lord's Prayer Magnificat (Song of Mary) Nicene Creed Prayer for the dead Serenity Prayer Trinitarian formula Vespers Vigil...

prayer times when Muslims perform salat. The term is primarily used for the five daily prayers including the Friday prayer, which takes the place of the...

Prayer for the Day is a religious radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom. It comprises a 2-minute reading or prayer and reflection...

The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically...

proclaims the call to the daily prayer (ṣalāt) five times a day (Fajr prayer, Zuhr prayer, Asr prayer, Maghrib prayer and Isha prayer) at a mosque from the minaret...

All Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, observed by...

The Jesus Prayer, also known as The Prayer, is a short formulaic prayer, esteemed and advocated especially in Eastern Christianity and Catholicism: Lord...