Evangelist Franklin Graham accepted an invitation to pray at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, saying he was “honored” to join other religious leaders in the program. Trump will be sworn in on Monday, becoming the first president to serve non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in the 1880s and 1890s. Under the U.S. Constitution, he will be sworn in as president at noon Eastern.
“President Donald J. Trump has asked me to give a coveted speech at his inauguration on Monday.” said Mr. Graham, president of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. “It is an honor to be asked to pray and alert the King of kings and Lord of lords. Forecaster I'm calling If the body temperature is in the teens, wearing clothes Just like the Michelin tire man, you can see why. ”
president @realDonaldTrump I was asked to give a prayer at the inauguration on Monday. It is an honor to be asked to pray and alert the King of kings and Lord of lords. https://t.co/ZfFKW4cO6B
— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) January 16, 2025
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, So will the Archbishop of New York. Execute the call. Dolan spoke at President Trump's first inauguration in 2017.
“The president was kind enough to ask me to give the opening prayer,” Dolan told WPIX. “I was asked to do it again in 2016, so [when] This time he asked me and I said, “Well, I did that eight years ago. I hope this works.”
Trump is taking his faith more seriously now than he has in the past.said Dolan..
“I believe he may have had a bit of a relapse.” [of faith]'' Dolan said. catholic news agency. “Alleluia, because I don't know how you can be president of the United States without deep faith.”
Dolan added that President Trump “knows that something mysterious happened with the two assassination attempts.” One time, a bullet grazed his ear in Pennsylvania, and the other time, at a golf course in Florida, where a gunman fled before firing directly at Trump.
“I remembered [Trump] When Ronald Reagan visited Pope John Paul II,” Dolan said. said“Both were victims of a brutal assassination attempt and narrowly escaped alive.'' President Ronald Reagan said, “Holy Father, Mother Teresa, God saved my life because… You said it was because I had something important to accomplish.” and Pope John Paul II laughed at him and said: President Mother Teresa said the same thing, so why not let the two of us work together to accomplish something in the world? ”
Others praying at the inauguration, according to religion news serviceincluding Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University. Imam Husham Al Hussaini of Karbala Islamic Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Pastor Lorenzo Sewell of 180 Church in Detroit. and the Rev. Frank Mann of the Diocese of Brooklyn in New York.
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