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A Prayer for Libyan Refugees The United Nations refugee agency says almost 100,000 people have fled the fighting in Libya and gone to Tunisia and Egypt. The situation is now seen as a "humanitarian emergency." Many of these peo…
A Prayer for Women Raped in War Zones A Libyan woman, who gave her name as Eman al-Obeidy, burst into a restaurant in Tripoli where Western journalists were eating on March 26 to tell them that she had been taken from her hometown, conf…
A Prayer for Victims of Sexual Violence One Who Weeps, be with all victims of sexual violence as they struggle with the memories and the pain of having being attacked. REPORT: The latest report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Contro…
A Prayer of Respect for All Women The disgusting gang rape on a bus in India of a woman student, who later died of her injuries, has set off a firestorm of protest against gender violence. Nicholas Kristof cites other shocking incid…
A Prayer to Honor American Nuns In an article in The New York Times, columnist Nicholas Kristof reported on Pope Benedict's reprimand and criticism of American nuns and the organization that represents 80% of them. The Vatican lam…
A Prayer for the Victims of Domestic Violence Shekinah, we ask for your guidance and direction to protect wives assaulted in their own homes by husbands and partners. Fact: Serbia is in the grips of a domestic violence crisis: official figur…
Ten Years with Pope Francis The Religion News Service (RNS) is an independent, nonprofit, and award-winning source of global news on religion, spirituality, culture and ethics, reported by a staff of professional journalists. …
A Prayer for the 7 Billion People of the Earth As of October 31, 2011, according to the U.N. Population Fund, there will be 7 billion people on the planet. China and India are the two most populous nations. Large challenges face the peoples of t…
The Role of Women in the Bahá’í Faith By Ariana Resauladin for KidSpirit's The Soul of Gender issue. I’m a 12-year-old girl who has grown up in a community of Bahá’ís. It is really astonishing to be a part of a religion th…