MENLO PARK (AP) -- Facebook already asks for your thoughts. Now it wants your prayers. The social media giant has rolled out a new prayer request feature, a tool embraced by some religious leaders ...

The requests used to end up on a board in the church hallway — more eyes, more prayers — but that ended up being a low-traffic space. Now, people or families take a prayer request home, for ...

The world's largest social media company confirmed on Thursday that it is expanding a feature called "prayer post, " which lets users of certain Facebook groups ask for and respond to prayer requests.