John XXIII, who convened Vatican II, himself issued an encyclical in 1962 calling for prayer and penance in preparation for the Council, including a special novena to the Holy Spirit accompanied by a plenary indulgence.
Instead of just calling for prayer or a moment of reflection, leaders will need to bear truth to power and organize against hate speech, racism, and acts of public and private discrimination.
"The word disgrace comes to me," the pope said during an audience, calling for prayers on behalf of the dead and their families.
Two Canadian architects, struck by the minarets, the stone towers, that all over town broadcast the male voices calling for prayers, instead installed wooden towers of see-through scaffolding.
Barack Obama called a press conference not to express regret for a tragedy that has happened, while calling for prayers for the victims and their families (as he has done so many times before), but instead to announce a bid to prevent the next tragedy – with a call for action to both Congress in particular and the public in general.
Pope Francis sent a Twitter message calling for prayers for the "victims of the tragic shipwreck off Lampedusa".
Social media reacted by calling for prayers for the souls of all the passengers, pictures of the victims and their mourning families were widely shared amongst internet users in Egypt.
Re "Increasingly, Football's Playbooks Call for Prayer" (Oct . 30: I played baseball at a small public high school.
As blacks and whites struggled with the racial implications of the debate, many called for prayer and peace and urged that there be no escalation of violence.
Aleksandra Vrebalov's Hold Me, Neighbour, In This Storm was chilling and beautifully structured, with pre-recorded Serbian Orthodox church bells and Islamic calls for prayer.
"Under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas," he formally did "hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24 , 2011 as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas".It is not clear whether Mr Perry's successor, Greg Abbott, will now call for prayer for the end of rain.
