Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tulsa City Council is doing away with the opening invocation prayer after controversy sparked last year. Instead of an opening ...

This PennLive article appeared on PA Post. The Rev. Carl Janicki of St. Genevieve Church of Flourtown, Montgomery County, offered the opening prayer on Wednesday in the Pennsylvania House of ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. – The first female Muslim member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives said Tuesday she was offended by a colleague's decision to open a voting session with a prayer a day ...

A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia on Friday upheld the House of Representatives’ requirement that it start each day it is in session with a religious prayer. The unanimous ruling ...

“Speak your mind or stick to the prayer?” That’s the question the Jacksonville City Council will grapple with in the coming weeks after a bill filed by Council President Aaron Bowman. The bill would ...

A federal judge has ordered the House of Representatives to allow nontheists - those who don't believe in a supreme deity - to be given the opportunity to offer an opening invocation at the start of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOMER, Alaska (AP) — A pastor wearing a ...

All eyes focused on the Rev. Joseph Tolton as he stood at the head of the City Council chamber and took over the microphone on a recent Wednesday just before the council passed a series of bills ...

A public school board’s policy and practice of opening its public meetings with invocation was struck down by a federal appeals court. In Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Chino Valley Unified ...

HOMER, Alaska (AP) — A pastor wearing a colander on his head offered the opening prayer on behalf of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to open a local government meeting in Alaska, the latest ...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives went to federal court to maintain an opening prayer that invokes a higher power and it came at a high cost to taxpayers. When all the legal bills were tallied ...