Sentences with phrase «own day of prayer»

The executive order, which will be signed in the White House Rose Garden during proceedings for the National Day of Prayer, is likely to please Trump's evangelical base.

Today, @POTUS will sign an EO creating a new faith - based initiative, and will continue the @WhiteHouse tradition that dates to President Truman of proclaiming the National Day of Prayer.

President Donald Trump presided over a National Day of Prayer event in the White House Rose Garden for the second year, pledging at the Thursday morning gathering to protect religious liberty all across America.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Donald Trump celebrated the National Day of Prayer by announcing a White House initiative that he said would underpin policies recognizing the «vital role» of religion in the country.

Trump signed the executive order during an event in the Rose Garden to mark the National Day of Prayer.

President Donald Trump talks with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly in the Oval Office before the start of a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 3, 2018.

Today in the Rose Garden, President Trump continued the tradition of celebrating the National Day of Prayer.

President Donald Trump marks the National Day of Prayer with faith leaders in the White House Rose Garden amid a firestorm over payments to a porn actress.

Even on the National Day of Prayer.

The extraordinary meeting of world Anglican leaders, organized by the Archbishop of Canterbury, has ended after five days of prayer and deliberation.

A National Day of Prayer is (1) for non-believers, an absurd and pointless pursuit of mass delusion, and (2) for Christians, a loving, usually unselfish, request made of a Supreme Being.

CNN: Personal e-mail urging Mormons to fast and pray for Romney goes national A Utah woman unwittingly started a grassroots campaign when an e-mail she sent to her five children and a handful of friends urging a day of prayer and fasting for Mitt Romney started making the Mormon rounds.

The answer is that the Christian right in our country is constantly trying to force their religious beliefs into the public sphere (science education, school prayer at public schools, Decalogue displays at court houses, nativity scenes on city hall property, crosses in all kinds of public places, national days of prayer, etc.)-- if these things stopped, the outcry from us non-believers would be greatly diminished.

The National Day of Prayer is an embarrassment to America and makes us look as intellectually barbaric as fervent middle eastern theocracies that in many ways haven't progressed much past the last millennium.

Its pretty easy to celebrate National Day of Prayer (if you want, it is a choice), you PRAY!

It's not National Day of Prayer to «God»... stop trying to make a big deal out of nothing, dumb article.

Today is an «Evangelical Day of Prayer and Action for Immigration Reform» in Washington, D.C., with many evangelical luminaries, and even more evangelical activists, hosting advocacy worship services and lobbying Congress for immigration legislation that would legalize the approximately 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S..

The Justice Department's official filing of a «notice to appeal» Thursday came as no surprise, after White House spokesman Matt Lehrich said following the ruling that President Obama intends to recognize this year's National Day of Prayer, which is May 6.

For the Day of Prayer, they re-released research specifically about the place of prayer in America.

He kicked off his campaign with brazen confessional gusto, bringing tens of thousands together in an NFL stadium for a day of prayer and fasting.

Today is America's National Day of Prayer, which is essentially a day earmarked for, as the presidents always proclaim, «the people of the United States may turn to God in...

For instance, the «National Day of Prayer» really, really irks me.

I wish the National Day of Prayer had people representing ALL religions in this country.

Then it would truly be a National Day of Prayer rather than what it really is, a national day of celebrating christianity.

The President and the officials who support the National Day of Prayer seem a bit to close to Pharisees for my comfort.

'' [I] ts sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function,» a Wisconsin judge wrote in the ruling, referring to the 1952 law that created the National Day of Prayer.

The Day of Prayer for the Media is not limited to journalists but including writers, editors, film, public relations, advertising and graphic designers.

If the «wall of separation» is lowered, we are told, our schools may be returned to the days of prayers prescribed by state legislatures; evolution may be banished from the classroom and replaced by «creation science»; and religious minorities may be at the mercy of intolerant majorities.

It holds a variety of Christian themes about Jesus, salvation, global day of prayer, blah blah blah; you know the usual tacky Christian attempt to witness to unsuspecting motorists who are forced to see this massive sign against their will and resent the fact that they have to look up and see not Coca - Cola, but «Jesus loves you enough to die for you».

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

I repeat my former request, that «a National day of Prayer be declared, to call the atention of the U.S. GOVERNMENT to some of the errors of its ways.

A day of prayer and fasting has been organised by London City Mission and the Message Trust after the disaster last Wednesday, which left at least 79 people dead.

The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance in the United States held on the first Thursday of May, inviting people of all faiths to pray for the nation.

Yet Perry, who sponsors a day of prayer called The Response this August, has his bona fides with this group too.

Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of the Rev. Billy Graham, who was disinvited from a Pentagon prayer service on the National Day of Prayer because of his Christian views and values?

Obama, not only refused to have a White House celebration of the National Day of Prayer, but instead feasted the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.

Yes - he asked that folks pray on September 11, 2012 - but what about the other days of prayer.

Ahead of the Day of Prayer for the Media this Sunday, Hazel Southam explains why Christians should pray for journalists More

I have studied many religions, read numerous books attended many services to learn, but I have always been a Catholic... and this person is not of religion that I know of, he attended the muslims day of prayer and not any other..

How quickly we have forgotten that Obama did away with the National Day of Prayer during his time in office.

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Whether it is joining the powerful 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World, or simply whispering a prayer for Muslims whenever we see some tragedy reported on our news networks, when we pray we are advancing Christ's kingdom among Muslims.

As late as the 1940s King George VI could still seek divine help against the enemy in World War II by calling for a national «Day of Prayer» (though the enemy was making similar appeals to the same God).

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Father James Oyet of the South Sudanese Council of Churches, who organised the National Day of Prayer added: «In spite of all the thunderstorms of life, the food crisis, the economic crisis, we want to thank God.

The nation's first president, George Washington, was also the first to call for a National Day of Prayer, one of «fasting, humiliation and prayer» to «acknowledge the gracious interpositions of Providence.»

Not content, however, with these impressive evidences of a prayerful people, Bush three days later announced at a prayer breakfast (with Billy Graham again at his side) that February 3 would be an official day of prayer for peace.

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But I am equally against restrictions on science or promotion of national days of prayer, etc..

I still have serious concerns regarding the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi in 1986, both in its reality and in the media myth, which struck me at the time, and today, as a movement away from the message of Catholicism as a Church called to convert the world and to be the «sign of contradiction» in the world.