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    The World Day of Prayer is an international ecumenical Christian laywomen's initiative. It is run under the motto "Informed Prayer and Prayerful Action"...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • Fixed prayer times, praying at dedicated times during the day, are common practice in major world religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam....
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    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...
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    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...
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    The Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel usually refers to one specific Catholic prayer to Michael the Archangel, among the various prayers in existence...
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    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,...
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    "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...
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    service consists of several parts including ritual washing, chants, recitation of scripture and prayer, and sermons. Youm Jumu'ah ("day of congregation")...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    The Maghrib prayer (Arabic: صلاة المغرب ṣalāt al-maġrib, "sunset prayer") is one of the five mandatory salah (Islamic prayers), and contains three cycles...
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    of the attacks, carried out by terrorists from Al-Qaeda, President George W. Bush proclaimed Friday, September 14, 2001, as a National Day of Prayer and...
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  • The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (often abbreviated as IDOP) is an observance within the Christian calendar in which congregations...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • "Like a Prayer" is a song by American singer Madonna from her 1989 fourth studio album of the same name. It was released as the album's lead single on...
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  • 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...
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    atonement and repentance. The day's main observances consist of full fasting and asceticism, both accompanied by extended prayer services (usually at synagogue)...
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  • Prayer in a certain direction is characteristic of many world religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith. Jews traditionally...
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  • non-Christian versions Litany Lord's Prayer Magnificat (Song of Mary) Nicene Creed Prayer for the dead Serenity Prayer Trinitarian formula Vespers Vigil...
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    Salah (redirect from Islamic prayer)
    form of worship in general, or specifically to the daily obligatory prayers performed by Muslims, observed three or (most commonly) five times a day. The...
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    The Jesus Prayer, also known as The Prayer, is a short formulaic prayer, esteemed and advocated especially in Eastern Christianity and Catholicism: Lord...
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    The Sinner's prayer (also called the Consecration prayer and Salvation prayer) is an evangelical term referring to any prayer of repentance, prayed by...
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  • Datagram Protocol, a datagram-oriented element of the Wireless Application Protocol suite World Day of Prayer, an international ecumenical Christian laywomen’s...
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    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...
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