[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.''
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.
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.
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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