World Prayers for December 3-9: Myanmar and Thailand

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Hong Island, Phuket, Thailand. Wikimedia Commons.

Bread for the World believes prayer is central to the work of ending hunger by 2030. Hunger happens in every corner of the world. In this blog series, we will provide a prayer for a different group of countries each week and their efforts to end hunger.

This prayer series will follow the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle, a list compiled by the World Council of Churches that enables Christians around the world to journey in prayer through every region of the world, affirming our solidarity with Christians all over the world, brothers and sisters living in diverse situations, experiencing their challenges and sharing their gifts.

We will especially be lifting up in prayer the challenges related to hunger and poverty that the people of each week’s countries face. In prayer, God’s story and our own story connect—and we and the world are transformed. In a prayer common to all of us—the Lord’s Prayer/the Our Father—we pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.” This line from this prayer can also be a prayer for the end of hunger.

We invite you to join Bread in our prayers for the world’s countries to end hunger. And we encourage you to share with us your prayers for the featured countries of the week or for the end of hunger in general.

For the week of December 3 – 9: Myanmar and Thailand

Give us this day our daily bread. 
All good gifts of the earth come from your generous hands, God. 
Yet, this abundance is not shared equally among us. 
While some are satisfied, others are starving. 
Women often become the victims of exploitation
because they are desperate to feed and care for their children. 
If only we would be mindful that each and every one of us must pray: 
Give us this day our daily bread.
(World Day of Prayer Committee of Myanmar 1989, Lord, teach us to pray. © 1989 World Day of Prayer International Committee.)

Percentage of the population of these countries living below the national poverty line:

Myanmar: 25.6
Thailand: 10.5

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators as found in the 2017 Hunger Report.

Prayer is a central part of Bread for the World’s work. Learn more about how you can get involved with prayer at Bread. 

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