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A Prayer for Victims of the Japanese Earthquake and the Pacific Tsunami By Frederic Brussat Blog Post A massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan at around 2:46 pm on March 11 (JST) causing damage with blackouts, fires, building collapses, and much more. The nu…
A Prayer for Victims and Families of Earthquakes in Iran By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post Two earthquakes in northwest Iran on Saturday, August 11, 2012, have killed 300 people and injured 2,600 more, according to reports from Reuters and other news agencies. The first quake registere…
A Prayer for those Suffering in East Africa's Famine By Frederic Brussat Blog Post An article on TheWeek.com summarizes the worst food crisis in half a century now happening in the Horn of Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, and parts of Uganda, Eritrea, and Djibouti. More than 11 m…
A Prayer about the Death Penalty By Frederic Brussat Blog Post God of Justice, in the United States, the death penalty is used as the ultimate form of punishment for heinous crimes. This barbaric practice is rejected in most other countries of the world. Su…
A Prayer for Those Sentenced to Die Behind Bars By Frederic Brussat Blog Post O Merciful One, we ask that you send your tender mercies to men and women suffering unjustly in prisons for minor offenses. Report: As of 2012, there were 3,278 prisoners serving sentences of li…
A Prayer for the Birds By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Poet and Rumi translator Coleman Barks has observed that all the mystical traditions revere birds and their songs. They represent our yearnings for purity, freedom, play, and deliver "messages of in…
Nearly Two People By KidSpirit Online Blog Post By Olivia Baliey Someday, everyone you love will die. You probably stared at that sentence for a minute, didn’t you? What a way to begin an article. So morbid. So terrible and cruel.
Death Cafes By Frederic Brussat Blog Post Statisticians put the number of people who die each year at 56 million. That comes out to 153, 000 deaths a day, 107 deaths per minute. Death speaks quite loudly to some of us, Erica Brown notes in …
A Prayer for Victims of the Terrorist Bombings at Istanbul Airport By Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post The shock of losing a loved one or a community member to a terrorist's bomb or gunfire is no small thing. And there are no safe places anymore – not movie theaters, dance clubs, churches, airports…
A Prayer for Those Affected by the Coronavirus By Mary Ann Brussat Blog Post March 3, 2020: The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that "we are in uncharted territory" with more than 90,000 cases (and counting ...) of Covid19 worldwide. As of this writing, 73…

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