2 million students mobilized during the “Bring your Bible to School Day” in the United States: key facts and context
October 2, 2025 marked a large-scale national mobilization in the United States, with nearly 2 million students expected to participate in the annual initiative “Bring your Bible to School Day”. Created in 2014 by Focus on the Family, the event aims to encourage young people to bring their bible to school and to dialogue around their faith in an educational setting. This meeting, now anchored every beginning of October, is part of a growing tradition of defense of religious freedom within the American school system.
The event is based on a structured organization: online prior registrations, educational materials, legal resources to inform students, families and teachers about the rights to express their faith in a peaceful way. In 2025, more than 70,000 schools were involved, an involvement also reflected by the adult sector where several million supported it, in particular via the networks of partner churches.
Social repercussions are notable, both on the perception of religion at school and on shared information in the public sphere: creation of biblical reading groups, testimonies relayed on social networks, positive reactions in the evangelical community. Several Christian media salute this opportunity as a vector for dialogue and strengthening rights to freedom of conviction.
In summary, the “Bring your Bible to School Day” 2025 embodies a public act of faith, inscribed in a chronology of increasing initiatives, with a central message: promoting freedom of conviction, Christian visibility, and citizen participation within the American school.
