Prayers for Japan

March 11, 2011

Keep the people of Japan and the Pacific Rim in your Lenten Friday prayers. The BBC has excellent coverage of the earthquake/tsunami and its aftermath.

Mollie Wilson O’Reilly is editor-at-large and columnist at Commonweal.

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