Source: Spirituality and Health
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, January 2, 2002: Intercessory prayer for infertile couples appears to dramatically improve the chances of pregnancy according to recent research at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The research involved 199 women attempting in-vitro fertilization in Seoul, Korea. The mothers were randomly placed either in a group where they were prayed for by Christians in the US, Canada and Australia, or in a non-prayer group. Those women who were prayed for had a higher pregnancy rate. For women between 30 and 39, the pregnancy rate for the prayed-for group was 51 percent, compared with 23 percent for the non-prayer group. The report was published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine.