Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor and actor, was the keynoe speaker at a naturalization ceremony at Mount ...

WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Donald Trump spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in the Capitol this morning. The 70-year tradition started with President Dwight D. Eisenhower who envisioned a day ...

On January 21, 2025, one day after his inauguration, President Donald Trump welcomed His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America before the National Prayer Service at the Washington National ...

In addition, such days involved church services, prayer, and, not turkey and dressing, but fasting. So, the lady who said Thanksgiving is tied to the Pequot War was wrong. The actual story that is ...

On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. He had an important aim that day: to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Washington’s first Thanksgiving as a president may have not been tremendously successful, given the scarce attendance at the church service. Yet, as a scholar writing a biography about Washington, I ...

PD Editorial: For Thanksgiving, President Washington’s proclamation George Washington issued the first presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving Day in 1789.

On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. He set out to travel the short distance from the President’s House and St. Paul’s Chapel for an important aim that day — to celebrate ...

In 1815, President James Madison called for a national day of prayer and thanksgiving, and in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln set aside the last Thursday in November as a day of “Thanksgiving ...

Washington was not the only U.S. president to issue proclamations around the November holiday. In 1815, President James Madison called for a national day of prayer and thanksgiving, and in 1863 ...

On Thanksgiving Day, here in Israel, I will proudly recite the prayers in Minhat Todah, expressing my continued gratitude for the blessing of being an American, and for the blessing that is America.