What about praying for all of those suffering people in the world?

Science would seem to indicate prayer for someone you are not close to actually carries a NEGATIVE statistical affect. That may be because the studies are flawed, in reality prayer or transcendental meditation on peace are only worth the change they create in the behavior of the people doing them, and that people are more likely to pray for someone else outside their sphere when they are in dire trouble anyway and more likely to die or become dysfunctional... or alternatively that the creator of the universe is either mean or really dedicated to testing the faith of followers