{"id":31477,"date":"2015-05-11T00:20:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T03:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31477"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:23:03","slug":"president-us-marines-celebrate-national-day-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/president-us-marines-celebrate-national-day-of-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"President, US Marines Celebrate National Day of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/marinendop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>US Marines at Cherry Point <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/162751\/cherry-point-religious-ministry-team-hosts-national-day-prayer-breakfast#.VU1yb00o6Um\">hosted a National Day of Prayer breakfast<\/a> (a slight combination of the National Day of Prayer and the National Prayer breakfast, it would seem) last week. The Marines&#8217; commander, Col Chris Pappas, &#8220;spoke of the importance of faith&#8221; to a crowd of some 200 attendees:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is such an important part of our history,\u201d said Cmdr. David Shirk, command chaplain at Cherry Point. \u201cAt some of the most critical times in our nation\u2019s history, when everything was on the line, presidents called for prayer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On that topic, President Obama issued the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/05\/06\/presidential-proclamation-national-day-prayer-2015\">annual proclamation<\/a> of the National Day of Prayer for May 7, 2015, saying [emphasis added]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When women and men of <strong>all backgrounds and beliefs are free to practice their faiths<\/strong> without fear or coercion, it bolsters our religious communities and helps to lift up diverse and vibrant societies throughout our world.\u00a0 In America, our Nation is stronger because we welcome and respect people of all faiths, and because we <strong>protect the fundamental right of all peoples to practice their faith how they choose<\/strong>, to change their faith, or to practice no faith at all, and <strong>to do so free from persecution and discrimination<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given recent controversies over Christian beliefs in the marketplace, some might question whether American citizens can truly adhere to the tenets of their faith without discrimination.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Marines at Cherry Point hosted a National Day of Prayer breakfast (a slight combination of the National Day of Prayer and the National Prayer breakfast, it would seem) last week. The Marines&#8217; commander, Col Chris Pappas, &#8220;spoke of the importance of faith&#8221; to a crowd of some 200 attendees:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5284,5113,5114,149,2,407,43,17,10,171],"class_list":["post-31477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chaplain","tag-chris-pappas","tag-david-shirk","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-national-day-of-prayer","tag-obama","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}