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• n  the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)
  the priest sank to his knees in prayer
• n  reverent petition to a deity
• n  earnest or urgent request
• n  a fixed text used in praying
• n  someone who prays to God

• A San Francisco researcher looks into whether prayer can heal from a distance.
• But at its best, the music matches the tender earnestness of the prayers' poetry: Father in Heaven! .
• Clergy debates the President's constitutional amendment The clergy ought to be the last group to argue about prayer.

• supplication
• petition
• orison
• entreaty
• appeal
• supplicant

News & Articles

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• Correction: Prayer in School story
  Correction: Prayer in School story (AP) — In a story June 10 about a Pennsylvania House of Representatives resolution to designate June 2013 as "Public School Religious Freedom Month," The Associated Press reported erroneously that the resolution was approved unanimously. (AP) — The Pennsylvania state House of Representatives is considering a resolution to recognize the 50th anniversary of a ...
  June 12, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
• Prayer service Wednesday on scheduled execution
  A prayer service to abolish the death penalty will be held at 4 p.m., Wednesday, June 12, at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, 526 N. Park Ave., Winter Park, on the scheduled execution of William Van Poyck.        
  June 11, 2013 - Orlando Sentinel
• Prayer proposal derailed by Island County commissioners
  Meetings of the Island County Board of Commissioners will not begin with a prayer. At least not anytime soon. Commissioner Kelly Emerson, the board chairwoman, proposed instituting a prayer at the beginning of board meetings. She said it was an issue she thought about for months, even before a prayer policy turned into a political minefield for the Oak Harbor City Council. Emerson asked her ...
  June 10, 2013 - Whidbey News Times

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in ABC News
  Obama, in a statement, said that on Sept. 11, 2001, "Americans across our great country came together to stand with the families of the victims, to donate blood, to give to charity, and to say a prayer for our country. Let us renew that."
• Diana Ross in E! Online
  I am unable to imagine this,Ross said. "My heart is hurting. I am in prayer for his kids and the family."
• Billy Graham in FOXNews
  I regret that the Army felt it was necessary to rescind their invitation to the National Day of Prayer Task Force to participate in the Pentagon's special prayer service,Graham said in a written statement.