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The National Prayer Breakfast is a yearly event held in Washington, D.C., on the first Thursday of February each year. The founder of this event was Abraham Vereide.〔.〕 The event—which is actually a series of meetings, luncheons, and dinners—has taken place since 1953 and has been held at least since the 1980s at the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue NW. The breakfast, held in the Hilton's International Ballroom, is typically attended by some 3,500 guests, including international invitees from over 100 countries. The National Prayer Breakfast is hosted by members of the United States Congress and is organized on their behalf by The Fellowship Foundation, a Christian organization. Initially called the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, the name was changed in 1970 to the National Prayer Breakfast. It is designed to be a forum for the political, social, and business elite to assemble and build relationships. Since the inception of the National Prayer Breakfast, several U.S. states and cities and other countries have established their own annual prayer breakfast events. Every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has participated in the annual event. ==Speakers== Each year several guest speakers visit the various events connected with the National Prayer Breakfast. However, the main event, the Thursday morning breakfast, typically has two special guest speakers: the President of the United States and a guest whose identity is kept confidential until that morning. Every U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has participated in the breakfast. Past keynote speakers include: * 1973 Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR) * 1977 (25th Annual NPB) U.S. House Majority Leader James Wright (D-TX) * 1987 Elizabeth Dole, United States Secretary of Transportation * 1994 (42nd Annual NPB) Mother Teresa of Calcutta * 1997 (45th Annual NPB) Dr. Ben Carson,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zondervan-author-ben-carson-gives-keynote-at-2013-national-prayer-breakfast-190221831.html )〕 author, neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital * 1998 (46th Annual NPB) U.S. Senator Connie Mack III (R-FL) * 1999 (47th Annual NPB) Max Lucado, American author and pastor * 2001 (49th Annual NPB) U.S. Senator Bill Frist (R-TN), physician, businessman, and politician * 2005 (53rd Annual NPB) Ambassador Tony P. Hall, U.S. Representative to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture * 2006 (54th Annual NPB) Bono, Irish singer/songwriter and humanitarian * 2007 (55th Annual NPB) Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute * 2008 (56th Annual NPB) Ward Brehm, a Minnesotan who chairs the U.S.-African Development Foundation * 2009 (57th Annual NPB) Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom * 2010 (58th Annual NPB) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Spanish PM to speak at prayer breakfast in Washington: reports )〕 Prime Minister of Spain * 2011 (59th Annual NPB) Randall Wallace,〔.〕 Academy Award-Winning Motion Picture Producer/Writer/Director * 2012 (60th Annual NPB) Eric Metaxas,〔.〕 author * 2013 (61st Annual NPB) Dr. Ben Carson,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zondervan-author-ben-carson-gives-keynote-at-2013-national-prayer-breakfast-190221831.html )〕 author, neurosurgeon and the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital * 2014 (62nd Annual NPB) Rajiv Shah, Administrator of the US Agency for International Development * 2015 (63nd Annual NPB) Darrell Waltrip, Fox Sports broadcaster Many of the past addresses by U.S. Presidents to the National Prayer Breakfast are available online. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Prayer Breakfast」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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