Patients have often commented to me how important it is to know their family, friends, churches and others are praying for them.

Chiklin finds out that the local priest has been providing the activist with a list of names of the people who enter the church to pray.

The church prays for persons who have taken their own lives.

Charlemagne replied that it was his function to defend the church and the Pope's to pray for the kingdom and for victory of the army.

Also on Sunday: Malachi O'Doherty on peace prayers: what exactly are churches praying for on this, the eve of the devolution deadline?

"Have you come to the church to pray?"

I've prayed about this, and my church has prayed about this.

Did you know that churches all over the world have been praying you'd come through this?

Black churches across the country have been praising the anti-apartheid leader and praying for him since that day.

All Byzantine churches, however, pray the little litanies traditionally prescribed for Matins and Vespers.