[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 87 (Tuesday, May 6, 2014)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 25659-25660]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-10460]


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                Proclamation 9117 of April 30, 2014

                
National Day of Prayer, 2014

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                One of our Nation's great strengths is the freedom we 
                hold dear, including the freedom to exercise our faiths 
                freely. For many Americans, prayer is an essential act 
                of worship and a daily discipline.

                Today and every day, prayers will be said for comfort 
                for those who mourn, healing for those who are sick, 
                protection for those who are in harm's way, and 
                strength for those who lead. Today and every day, 
                forgiveness and reconciliation will be sought through 
                prayer. Across our country, Americans give thanks for 
                our many blessings, including the freedom to pray as 
                our consciences dictate.

                As we give thanks for our liberties, we must never 
                forget those around the world, including Americans, who 
                are being held or persecuted because of their 
                convictions. Let us remember all prisoners of 
                conscience today, whatever their faiths or beliefs and 
                wherever they are held. Let us continue to take every 
                action within our power to secure their release. And 
                let us carry forward our Nation's tradition of 
                religious liberty, which protects Americans' rights to 
                pray and to practice our faiths as we see fit.

                The Congress, by Public Law 100-307, as amended, has 
                called on the President to issue each year a 
                proclamation designating the first Thursday in May as a 
                ``National Day of Prayer.''

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim May 1, 2014, as a 
                National Day of Prayer. I invite the citizens of our 
                Nation to give thanks, in accordance with their own 
                faiths and consciences, for our many freedoms and 
                blessings, and I join all people of faith in asking for 
                God's continued guidance, mercy, and protection as we 
                seek a more just world.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand fourteen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and thirty-
                eighth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2014-10460
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