The National Day of Prayer is a government-sanctioned holiday in which people are encouraged to pray and meditate. Reuters Millions of people across the U.S. are expected to bow their heads in prayer ...

Why Scripture talks of our entreaties to God as rising like incense. Some prayers find their way back quickly, like sunlight glancing off water. Others seem to drift into the distance and never return ...

Years ago, when I first received the one-volume Liturgy of the Hours (“The Divine Office”), it came with a card that had a prayer prefaced with the words: “The following prayer may be said before ...

Offering “thoughts and prayers” after a tragedy may sound insufficient, said Father Chris Collins, a Jesuit priest and vice president for mission at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — These are some of the prayers said in and around the Capitol that day, collected by Religion News Service from videos, public documents, interviews and news reports. WASHINGTON (RNS ...