Praying is not going to do much unless there is unity/cohesiveness. Then of course one must respond with action because the way consciousness manifests reality is ....
Thought...word.....action.
Leaving it to some other "entity" has not worked in reality ever. It makes great fables though and it also makes great docile slave beings when seeded by these belief systems of separation.
Taking our power back will end this and every other similar situation where we have allowed others power over us.