Day of Prayer inspires pleas for unity
President Biden says observance can help America overcome adversities, crises By LUIS ANDRES HENAO, DAVID CRARY and MARIAM FAM, Associated Press
Published: May 6, 2021, 8:15pm
Share: Rae Woodward, left, and Carrie Woodward sing along during a prayer worship service Thursday on the 70th National Day of Prayer on the lawn of the Daviess County Courthouse in Owensboro, Ky. (alan warren/The Messenger-Inquirer)
U.S. soldiers were fighting in Korea when President Harry S. Truman signed a congressional resolution calling for an annual National Day of Prayer. The purpose was for people to gather in houses of worship to pray for world peace, according to an Associated Press report from April 17, 1952.