This global prayer and fasting crusade is sponsored by numerous Catholic and Christian organizations to enter this new year with a powerful 40 days to convert America and to transform the world. People from across the globe are needed to pray and fast for the conversion of nations -- imploring God's Mercy on our world. This is the 15th crusade of 40 Days since it began in Lent 2003 and is in response to escalating global threats: terrorism, nuclear armed nations, natural and man-made disasters like the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe, the smoldering powder keg in the Middle East, the killing of the innocent (abortion) and the marginalizing of the elderly and the disabled.