Say A Prayer For The World — Who Is Going To Save The Children?
Children are small, and so are their voices. It’s easy for humanity not to hear their cries!


They say we enter the world as an empty slate. An empty heart too, I guess. So it’s up to us to put the correct values, disciplines, and qualities inside our children. Until we do, they need us.
Humanity is failing the Children!
On the floor doing my yoga this morning and my husband turned on the TV to listen to the news. Maxi Priest’s song Say A Prayer For The World flows out and attacks my heart as the news goes on to explain how many children are dying and suffering in our world.
The lyrics of this song inspired me to write this piece.
Lyrics of Say a Prayer For the World by Maxi Priest Not just another prayer Not just another song When I look at the darkness all around us I feel like I’m loosin’ control So many people who just don’t know where to go Listen to me now Not a song goes unsung Not a voice goes unheard Ooh I’m hanging on your every word Say a prayer for the world
The cries of our children are going unheard!
Say a Prayer for the World and our Children.
According to one news source, more than ten thousand Palestinian children have been slaughtered in Gaza since October 2023. That means every fifteen minutes a child dies. The voices of these children go unanswered. Is it because they are small? Small voices tend to go unheard, even in death.
According to www.msnbc.com: More than 12,300 children in Gaza have been killed since Israel began its retaliatory assault on the enclave after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, according to the Gaza Health Ministry — a staggering toll that surpasses the number of children killed in wars globally in the four years prior.
Say a Prayer for the World and our Children.
Across Nigeria, children are being abducted and taken from schools.
According to www.alijazeera.com, It was the third incident of mass kidnapping in northern Nigeria since late last week, when more than 200 people, mostly women and children, were abducted by suspected fighters in Borno state. On Thursday, 287 students were taken hostage from a government primary and secondary school in Kaduna state.
Schools are becoming a death trap in Nigeria for our children. Imagine sending your child to school and they were kidnapped from inside the classroom.
Say A prayer for the World and our Children.
According to www.unicef.org: Even though primary education is officially free and compulsory, about 10.5 million of the country’s children aged 5–14 years are not in school. Only 61 percent of 6–11 year-olds regularly attend primary school and only 35.6 percent of children aged 36–59 months receive early childhood education.
Say a Prayer for the World and our Children.
According to www.unicef.org: PORT-AU-PRINCE, 15 June 2023 — Nearly 3 million children — the highest number on record — need humanitarian support in Haiti, where they face staggering levels of violence that have exacerbated hunger and malnutrition in a country already mired in poverty and a resurgence of cholera.
“Being a child in Haiti today is harsher and more dangerous than it ever has been in living memory. The threats and hardships children face are simply unimaginable. They desperately need protection and support,” said UNICEF Haiti Representative Bruno Maes.
Say a Prayer for the World and our Children.
According to en.wikpedia.org: During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia forcibly transferred almost 20 thousand Ukrainian children to areas under its control, assigned them Russian citizenship, forcibly adopted them into Russian families, and created obstacles for their reunification with their parents and homeland.
How could this happen?
Say a Prayer for the World and our Children.
According to www.npr.org: At least 19,000 children are still gone, according to Ukrainian officials, but the real number is believed to be much higher. They’re sent to Russian foster families, technical schools, military training, and so-called summer camps with the intention of turning them into Russian citizens.
What?
Everywhere in our world children are suffering. WHY?
How many more children must die before something is done to save and protect them? How can we fail our most precious assets?
Aren’t children our future anymore?
If your heart could speak, what would it say?
It’s time to save our children!
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