The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance celebrated on the first Thursday of May. It falls on May 1 this year. The day invites Americans to pray for their country, according to ...

The first Thursday of May, which is set aside as a National Day of Prayer, is this week. The National Day of Prayer is an American tradition, rooted deeply in the history of the U.S., with origins ...

FLAT ROCK — ­All faiths are invited to the National Day of Prayer at 3 p.m. on Thursday, May 1. According to one of the coordinators and Flat Rock Community Foundation trustee, Jeremiah North ...

Calls for a national day of prayer and repentance go all the way back to 1775. It was first made a national observance by the U.S. Congress — signed into law by President Harry Truman — in ...

Pope Leo XIV, when he was bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, offered a special prayer of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary ...

Members of the community gathered to pray together as they observed the 2025 National Day of Prayer on May 1 at Tracy City Hall, Led by pastors Nancy and James Young of His Image Ministries ...

The 74th National Day of Prayer will be observed with events across the High Desert on Thursday, May 1. Events are planned in Adelanto, Apple Valley, Barstow, Hesperia, and Victorville ...

The National Day of Prayer is observed annually on the first Thursday of May. The tradition dates back to the Continental Congress in 1775 and was formally established by President Truman in 1952.