Studying the efficacy of prayer is a sensitive topic: Depending on where you come from, you can either consider it offensive even to try to apply a scientific method to a spiritual process, or you can ...

Have you ever asked a Christian friend to pray for you? You may have chosen someone you could trust, or someone who was close to God. In fact, Scripture encourages us to intercede on behalf of one ...

The largest medical study of the efficacy of intercessory prayer in healing has found that it has no effect on patients’ recovery from heart-bypass surgery, researchers announced on Thursday. Patients ...

Prayer works for people .its called faith. - Ronnie, a reader An unscientific reasoner will be guided by a confused recollection of crude experience. –F. Galton (1872) The "Prayers and Thoughts" ...

We can pray to the saints, any saint, at any time, whether via popular novenas or simple supplication on their feast days or at other times of need. From sending showers of roses to finding lost ...

Pray without ceasing. Our lives should be a steady stream of prayers, connecting our earthly realm with the heavenly one, and making space for daily encounters with the divine. How, then, do we live ...

A LOT of studies on intercessory prayer have been published in recent years. This research has returned mixed results. Some studies conclude that prayer improves health, while others show no effect—or ...