Talk:World Day of Prayer

German citation

Hello wiki admins! I see I need a citation for my first sentence. That the WDP is the "world's largest ecumenical laywoman's initiative" was gleaned from a German website; can I cite that, though it is not in English? As it is, the WDP is prepared most thoroughly in German speaking countries. --Arunadasi 05:25, 1 September 2007 (UTC)Arunadasi

The citation being in German is no problem we have plenty of German speakers on here :-) TerriersFan 13:58, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

... and now they have changed that website, and the information! So I have edited to "an international Christian laywomen's..."--Arunadasi 05:32, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Controversy

I think this article needs a "Contraversy" section. The event has come under much, and well deserved IMHO, criticism for the so called "World Day of Prayer" in that while the name gives the illusion of inclusivity, it is actually very exclusivist. It is a Christian only event. Other religions are not invited, and in many countries the committees have refused participation by other religions. The article as written gives no mention of this particular problem. Havocovah (talk) 00:29, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Not to leave this 10-year-old question unanswered:

So where's the controversy on that, or the (sourced) criticism? The article states, as it did in 2011, perfectly correctly that this is an ecumenical Christian event. "Ecumenical" means, by definition, that there are different Christian denominations involved. The World Day of Prayer never claimed to be an interreligious event. Not sure where you get that from.

Possibly this has been confused with some other event with a similar name? In 2011, the article included a section on the First World Prayer for Peace from Jerusalem which has nothing to do with the World Day of Prayer and has long been removed from this article, and rightly so. --217.239.11.145 (talk) 10:46, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

External links

How much sense does it make to list all the national committee websites? They are all listed on the official World Prayer Day website. Do we really need to include them all here? That would, for one thing, mean adding many more, and for another, keeping them all updated. Also, I would expect them to at least provide some additional information.
The "English" website for instance has not even been updated for two years, and to tell the truth, I find some of its content pretty weird ("The power of prayer is scientifically proven"). Some content is downright wrong ("Last year the World Day of Prayer was held in the city of Split Croatia" - which "last year"? And no, it was held in many places, not just in Split). The bold print advertisement for a commercial travel company leading a "mesmerizing tour to Blue Cave" makes me doubt that this is even an official website. On the whole website, I cannot find the slightest indication that this is the official website of the committee of England/ Wales/ North Ireland. --217.239.11.145 (talk) 12:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Found it: This is the official website. --217.239.11.145 (talk) 12:17, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Other "World Days of Prayer"

Shouldn't a Wikipedia article focus on one thing only? If the other two World Days of Prayer are of encyclopedic relevance, this might justify an ambiguation note, but not a paragraph in this article. In fact, I very much doubt that they are of encyclopedic relevance:

• The "Unity Church" thing is based on two sources, one of which is absolutely and totally dead (not even retrievable via archive) plus a Facebook page, and there is absolutely no indication that this is an ongoing event nor that it has received any sort of coverage in any media beside its own.
• Same thing goes for the "Knights of Columbus" thing. No independent media coverage, no indication of its having been celebrated more than once, not to speak of "world"wide. Not even our article Knights of Columbus knows of this day.

--217.239.3.240 (talk) 16:30, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

These two apparently very small, basically unsourced, and probably non-notable events have nothing to do whatsoever with the event described in this article. I will go ahead now and remove that passage. For anyone who feels they need to put it back in, please provide sources first and an explanation what this has to do with the World Day of Prayer this article is about. --2003:C0:8F03:3300:881C:3314:B381:ED4A (talk) 10:22, 14 October 2025 (UTC)