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A prayer responding to the Turkey-Syria earthquake

Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.

Destroyed buildings in Hatay, Turkey. Photo by Hilmi Hacaloğlu, Wikipedia Commons.

God of our refuge,

You are present in all our troubles,
present through all the changes
across the whole of space, place and time.
As you are with us,
be also with your children in Türkiye (Turkey) and Syria
as the earth below them has violently shaken,
bringing buildings crumbling to the ground
amongst the strife of civil war and the freezing weather,
making emergency responses more difficult.

Bless the thousands of...

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