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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent call to a locksmith led to more than I bargained for: a discussion of the Virgin Mary and intercessory prayer. I'd been testing keys from a box left by our new church's former owners when ...

Tracy and Tami Hauser are praying for a miracle and asking others to do the same. On Oct. 8, their seventh child, John Paul, was born with a rare chromosomal disorder called Trisomy 13, which doctors ...

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 ...