National Religious Freedoms Day
January 16 is National Religous Freedoms Day. The day marks the anniversary of the Virginia General Assembly’s adoption of Thomas Jefferson’s landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on this day in 1786. This important document became the basis for the separation of church and state, a novel idea at the time, and led to freedom of religion for all Americans as protected in the religion clause in the US Constitution’s First Amendment.
The day is marked each year with an official statement by the President of the United States and with the First Freedom Awards banquet in Richmond, Virginia.
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