Jesus Day
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Jesus Day is a common term for the day of the March for Jesus held annually by some Christians on the Saturday before Pentecost Sunday, since the 1980s, with the purpose of showing their love of Jesus by "serving their communities and worshiping their Lord in the streets of their cities."[1]
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In Texas in 2000, then Governor George W. Bush who was running for President signed a bill from the Texas Legislature that proclaimed June 10 of that year to be Jesus Day (following the lead of many other states and cities in the U.S.). On the 10th annual "March for Jesus" that year, the event was observed in Austin, Texas as it was elsewhere globally. The Texas proclamation urged people to "follow the example of Jesus" to "answer the call to serve those in need".
The proclamation received national attention when the New York Times ran an article on the proclamation.[2]
Since then, it has been widely and erroneously implied or asserted that Jesus Day is an invention of George Bush, that it was singular to the state of Texas, or that it is/was an official Texas state holiday held annually.
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