National Bible Week to be Observed November 23-30
Diocesan Press Service. October 6, 1975 [75341]
NEW YORK, N. Y. -- The 35th interfaith National Bible Week has been announced by Deane Baker, president of the Laymen's National Bible Committee, sponsoring organization. Richard I. Fricke, chairman of Mutual of New York, is national chairman of the observance.
The Rt. Rev. John M. Allin, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, has called on "all Episcopalians to find some suitable way, individually and together, to observe National Bible Week. "
"As we approach our nation's Bicentennial," Bishop Allin said, "we Christians must be able and effective witnesses to God's will for justice as we encounter it in the ongoing life of our nation. Study of the Bible is an indispensable part of this task. "
National Bible Week coincides each year with Thanksgiving, America's only non-sectarian religious holiday. The week has been sponsored by the committee since 1941. The promotion of National Bible Week has been mostly a mass media effort since its beginning.
President Gerald Ford is honorary chairman for the campaign to motivate Bible reading and study. Honorary chairmen include the Hon. James A. Farley, the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh, Archbishop lakovos, Art Linkletter, George Meany, Mrs. Norman Vincent Peale, and Lawrence Cardinal Shehan.
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