Prayer Bulletin for August 2025

You may not have heard about this development. Last week, in a bold, controversial move, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shut down nearly half a billion dollars in federal mRNA vaccine research, declaring that the technology carries “more risk than benefit” for fast-mutating viruses like COVID-19 and influenza.

Twenty-two contracts were canceled, freezing projects that many in the biomedical establishment considered essential to pandemic preparedness. The backlash from the public health elite was swift and severe.