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)

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