PHOENIX – An ongoing fight in the Arizona House over what constitutes a real prayer has heated up again. The latest skirmish came last week after Democratic Rep. Athena Salman of Tempe delivered the ...

Should an invocation policy come to a vote at a future Ottumwa City Council meeting, it will likely have more than enough ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – The flurry of national attention that erupted after a Wiccan high priest was asked to withdraw from giving the invocation for the June 26, 2014, meeting of the Huntsville City ...

City councilors voted Wednesday to amend the Council Rules and Order of Business to remove the invocation before regular council meetings and replace it with a moment of “silent prayer or personal ...

Mayor Ellen Brabo said Monday’s city council meeting will begin with a moment of silence instead of an opening prayer. She ...

SOLDOTNA — Rain began to fall just before a huddled group of Catholic Church members began praying on a sidewalk in Soldotna. Some held rosaries or icons; one held a wooden cross more than five feet ...

Starting next year, prayer invocations will no longer be on the Eureka City Council’s agendas. The decision was made earlier this week when the council voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance that ...

A young woman carries a crucifix in the offertory during Mass at the international border in Nogales, Ariz., Oct. 23, as an offertory gift to recall migrants who have died in the deserts of Arizona.