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Dec. 10, 2004 | IBIZA, Spain -- By their eighth night in the West End, Ibiza's low-rent nightlife district, the members of the 24-7 Prayer team don't flinch at anything they see: not at the woman lifting her skirt to ask a group of men what color panties she's wearing; not at the guy with papier-mâché breasts strapped around his waist, standing beside a sign that says "Dexter has the clap"; not at the guy mooning the girl who just spurned his advances, or the one across the street, pulling his dick out of his pants and flopping it on...

InterVarsity students at Central College in Pella, Iowa, started praying at the beginning of the spring semester and haven’t stopped. More than 2,400 consecutive hours have been logged by shifts of students in a prayer room set up in the student union. “It demands sacrifice and perseverance, both of which can all too often be lacking in students,” said campus staff member Jon Hietbrink. But not only have the 75 students involved deepened their devotional lives, but they have also drawn closer together through the experience. And it’s influenced those around them. “We coordinated our 24-7 prayer movement with a...