Sec. of State Marco Rubio appears at Rededicate 250 National Prayer Jubilee in pre-recorded message

In a pre-recorded video, Secretary of State Marco Rubio talked about the faith of American revolutionaries and traced the role of Christian faith through the expansion west, driven in part by missionaries who aimed to spread the Gospel, Samuel Morse's invention of the telegraph and his first words on it (from the Bible's Book of Numbers, "What hath God wrought?") all the way to the astronauts of the 20th century who cited scripture to describe the sight of Earth from space. Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/17/rededicate-250-christian-religious-trump-national-mall/90080631007/ Sign up for our newsletter for the day's top stories, from sports to movies to politics to world events: https://profile.usatoday.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/ #Prayer #WashingtonDC #Jubilee