Biden prays for 'honesty, decency, dignity' in Day of Prayer proclamation amid ongoing campus protests

President Biden issued a proclamation to people the National Day of Prayer successful which helium urges practice and decorum amid ongoing disruption and unit connected assemblage campuses nationwide. 

The proclamation was released connected Wednesday up of the National Day of Prayer connected May 2. 

"Scripture tells america to rejoice successful hope, beryllium diligent successful tribulation, and beryllium changeless successful prayer," Biden wrote successful the proclamation. "This year, my supplication for our Nation is that we support religion that our champion days are up of america and proceed to judge successful honesty, decency, dignity, and respect."

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President Joe Biden speaks during a run lawsuit astatine the Martin Luther King Recreation Center successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"May we spot each different not arsenic enemies but arsenic chap quality beings, each made successful the representation of God and each precious successful His sight," helium continued. "May we permission nary 1 behind, springiness everyone a just shot, and springiness hatred nary harmless harbor. May we retrieve that thing is beyond our capableness if we enactment together."

Biden's connection of bid and nonviolence comes arsenic U.S. colleges crossed the state descend into chaos amid student protesters demanding full divestment from Israel and more.

Students astatine Columbia University successful New York City barricaded themselves wrong a field gathering aft weeks of protest, yet necessitating a raid by the NYPD connected Tuesday night.

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Cops face-off with pro-Palestinian students aft destroying portion of the encampment barricade connected the field of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) successful Los Angeles, California. (Etienne Laurent/AFP/Getty)

Campus disruptions are inactive ongoing astatine the University of California Los Angeles, Tulane, Portland State University and elsewhere.

On the National Day of Prayer itself, Biden explicitly addressed the concern and condemned the actions of students starring to "disorder."

"Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campus, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations — nary of this is simply a peaceful protest," Biden said Thursday. "Threatening people, intimidating people, instilling fearfulness successful radical is not a peaceful protest. It's against the law. Dissent is indispensable to democracy, but dissent indispensable ne'er pb to disorder."

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NYPD officers apprehension students astatine Columbia University successful New York City. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates antecedently said connected Apr. 30 that Biden condemns "antisemitic" and "dangerous" aspects of the demonstrations.

"President Biden has stood against repugnant, antisemitic smears and convulsive rhetoric his full life. He condemns the usage of the word 'intifada,' arsenic helium has the different tragic and unsafe hatred code displayed successful caller days," Bates said. "President Biden respects the close to escaped expression, but protests indispensable beryllium peaceful and lawful. Forcibly taking implicit buildings is not peaceful — it is wrong. And hatred code and hatred symbols person nary spot successful America."Fox News Digital has reached retired to the White House for comment.