Pentecostals believe God routinely intervenes in human affairs and Palin sounded like a Pentecostal when she asked people at Wasilla Assembly of God to pray about building a gas pipeline through Alaska.

NPR: Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background

Gathering in fields or villages during community festivals, members of the Korean ethnic group in Jilin and other provinces in north-eastern China offer a traditional sacrifice to the God of the Land to pay homage to nature and pray for good fortune and a plentiful harvest.

UNESCO: Culture

And I pray to offer my thanks for a kind and generous Almighty God.

WSJ: Gut Time

He went on to ask the crowd to "pray to God so that he can bless me", before calling on the world to set off on a path of love and fraternity.

BBC: Argentina's Jorge Mario Bergoglio elected Pope Francis

Even though we are on opposite sides of a whole bunch of issues, part of what has bound us together is a shared faith, a recognition that we pray to and serve the same God.

WHITEHOUSE: National Prayer Breakfast