MANILA, Philippines (AP) Filipinos in Asia's largest predominantly Roman Catholic nation attended Mass on Sunday with their church awkwardly having no pope for the first time in 600 years and prayed for the smooth rise of a successor to Benedict XVI to lead an embattled institution.
President Pervez Musharraf, who counted the general as a key ally, sent a personal message to the surviving families and "prayed for the eternal peace of departed souls and for courage to the grieved families, " according to the state media.
And the Pakistanis prayed only in the mosques for Pakistanis.
As the message came over that an attack was imminent, someone suggested that we prayed for peace and averting the global destruction that was expected in minutes.
And many of you have spouses, partners, children, parents who stood by you and encouraged you and prayed for you every step of the way.
Schools in the Swat Valley closed on Wednesday in protest at the attack, and schoolchildren in other parts of the country prayed for the girl's recovery.
This appeal would be made to a higher calling: Abbas and Peres prayed for peace together Sunday at the Vatican home of Pope Francis.
"Every day during these past seven months, we have hoped and prayed for this moment, " said the statement, which was provided to CNN by The New York Times .
"This is something that people have across the world worked for and prayed for and I think we are all very pleased and happy to hear of her release, " Rice said.
The author Franklin Loehr concluded that plants for which people prayed showed a better rate of survival and growth than plants which did not enjoy the benefit of prayer.
They prayed for safety and freedom from crime for people who lived along the interstate.
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When President George Washington marked our democracy's first Thanksgiving, he prayed to our Creator for peace, union, and plenty through the trials that would surely come.
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They bowed their heads, and for five minutes they did the only thing left to do: They prayed.
He apologised to Jews for Catholic passivity during the Holocaust, prayed at a Syrian mosque and took steps to heal the rift between Catholics and adherents of the various eastern Orthodox churches.
Christine, 21 and Caroline, 17, spoke of horror of the night, when they saw their father bleeding on a hospital bed and prayed for his recovery.
Alpha conveyed greetings, prayed for the recipient's health, invoked the memory of the dead, and wrote hereby merely to inform them of the sender's situation, the dislocations and hardships of the war.
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