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National Day of Prayer inspires pleas for unity and justice
John Emery Brannen, center left, takes his turn leading a prayer circle during the National Day of Prayer observance at the Bulloch County Courthouse on Thursday, May 6.
John Emery Brannen, center left, takes his turn leading a prayer circle during the National Day of Prayer observance at the Bulloch County Courthouse on Thursday, May 6.
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.
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