Today is National Day of Prayer 2025 in the United States, an annual tradition when Americans of various faiths and backgrounds come together to pray for the nation. Here's what to know about the day.

As Christians, we are called to be a people of prayer. Oftentimes, prayer is solely associated with asking things of God. While supplication is a part of prayer, it has always been seen as one of the ...

In 1965, Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, writer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, found himself in a small synagogue somewhere in the Soviet Union. His eyes were glued to the rabbi, an old man with a ...

Tom Griffin is the chair of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of a print and online Catholic magazine called The Empty Tomb ...

President Donald Trump has promoted Rededicate 250, a national day of prayer culminating on May 17 on Washington‘s National Mall as the U.S. nears its 250th birthday. With the date approaching, the ...

There's no one way to pray and, suffice to say, no wrong or right way to pray. The point is to converse and connect with the divine. To have a scared, safe space to reveal your deepest inner truths ...

The life of prayer is a process that has great advances and setbacks. There is no monotony when it comes to spending time with God. For those who commit themselves to pray, there is a daily adventure ...

If you could have any superpower, what would it be? I have always been partial to flying. On Christmas of my kindergarten year, I received a Superman costume. I had eyed it for months in the Sears ...

The "priestly prayer" of Jesus in this Sunday's Gospel shows that prayer is both personal and communal because our relationship with God is both personal and communal. We are united in love by God who ...

When asked why he seemed to be wasting his time living in a monastery, the exceptional twentieth century Christian monk and writer, Thomas Merton, replied simply, “Because I believe in prayer." Most ...