National Day of Prayer, 2025

[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 7, 2025)]

[Presidential Documents]

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[FR Doc No: 2025-08132]

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Proclamation 10929 of May 1, 2025

National Day of Prayer, 2025

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

From the earliest days of our Nation's journey, America

has been guided by the grace of Almighty God. Beginning

with the opening prayer at the First Continental

Congress in 1774, our faith has perpetually stood as

the summit of our strength, the source of our unity,

and the fount of our greatness. This National Day of

Prayer, we thank God for His endless blessings--and we

ask Him to grant us fortitude, wisdom, and a renewed

spirit of justice as we continue the work to save our

country and restore our national promise.

Across every chapter of our grand American story--from

General George Washington's humble prayer at Valley

Forge to Reverend Billy Graham's legendary rallies in

the heart of Manhattan to the somber National Prayer

Service in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks,

our greatest leaders have always recognized the

necessity of faith, prayer, and devotion to God. As

President Washington famously stated in his seminal

Farewell Address, ``Of all the dispositions and habits

which lead to political prosperity, religion and

morality are indispensable supports.''

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our greatest leaders have always recognized the

necessity of faith, prayer, and devotion to God. As

President Washington famously stated in his seminal

Farewell Address, ``Of all the dispositions and habits

which lead to political prosperity, religion and

morality are indispensable supports.''

For these reasons, my Administration is fighting to

defend America's longstanding legacy of prayer, faith,

and trust in God. As President, I proudly established

Task Forces to eradicate religious bias by combatting

anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and additional forms of

anti-religious bias. They are charged with the mandate

to identify and eliminate all anti-religious policies,

practices, and conduct in executive departments and

agencies. In addition, I established the White House

Faith Office in order to strengthen our families and to

protect our religious freedom. I will never waver in

safeguarding the right to religious liberty and

protecting God in our public square.

Nine months ago on July 13, 2024, my faith took on new

meaning. An assassin's bullet came within a quarter of

an inch of ending my life. In that instant, as Secret

Service crowded around and knocked me to the ground, I

felt what seemed to be the supernatural hand of God. I

believe that God spared my life for a reason--to save

our country and restore America to greatness. It serves

as a sacred reminder of our Creator's infinite

goodness, guidance, and grace.

Service crowded around and knocked me to the ground, I

felt what seemed to be the supernatural hand of God. I

believe that God spared my life for a reason--to save

our country and restore America to greatness. It serves

as a sacred reminder of our Creator's infinite

goodness, guidance, and grace.

Through America's victories and defeats, triumphs and

setbacks, and periods of peace and times of war, the

divine force of prayer has unfailingly sustained our

people, our culture, and our beloved Nation. It was

faith that guided our ancestors across turbulent waters

to Plymouth Rock. It was faith that inspired our

Founding Fathers to put in writing those immortal

words, ``All men are created equal.'' It is faith that

freed our Nation from the clutches of tyranny nearly

250 years ago, and it is faith that has rescued our

freedom from forces of evil time and time again.

This National Day of Prayer, we recognize that the true

strength of the American spirit has always been found

in churches, chapels, pews, parishes and synagogues,

and the hearts and souls of our citizens of faith.

Today and every day, we bow our heads in prayer to

thank God for His countless gifts and to ask for His

divine protection. Above all, we acknowledge that

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prayer is the foundation of our past, the guiding hand

of our present, and the light of our future.

he hearts and souls of our citizens of faith.

Today and every day, we bow our heads in prayer to

thank God for His countless gifts and to ask for His

divine protection. Above all, we acknowledge that

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prayer is the foundation of our past, the guiding hand

of our present, and the light of our future.

In 1988, the Congress, by Public Law 100-307, as

amended, called on the President to issue each year a

proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a

National Day of Prayer, ``on which the people of the

United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation

at churches, in groups, and as individuals.''

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the

United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 1,

2025, as a National Day of Prayer. I encourage all

Americans to observe this day, reflecting on the

blessings our Nation has received and the importance of

prayer, with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and

activities in their houses of worship, communities, and

places of work, schools, and homes.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this

first day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand

twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United

States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.

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