This model stands in opposition to the traditional conception of prayer as a channel of communication between the praying person and the listening God.
Prayer offers you a direct channel of communication to God.
In a broadcast aired on Al Jazeera and a Hamas-affiliated channel during Friday prayers, Ismail Haniyeh, one of the group's most senior officials, implored Gazans to "deepen and strengthen the... battle for Jerusalem and the blessed intifada".
Channel 4 said the prayer will be transmitted "directly into British living rooms at the exact time Muslims prepare for their first prayers and as they begin their fast every morning during Ramadan".
"Make me a channel of your peace," the prayer begins.
The channel, formerly the Prayer Channel, is now known as Net, for New Evangelization Television.
The service, which will be shown live on Channel 4, will include memorial prayers for Richard III and the victims of Bosworth and other conflicts.
This, so it seems to me, is prayer and has for me opened an inner channel to God.
The Vatican has downplayed the incident, filmed by the religious satellite channel TV2000, saying it was just a prayer.
