The prayer was for brotherhood, peace, courage and guidance — not dissimilar from the dozens of other prayers given before Sedgwick County Commission meetings this year. There was one key difference, ...

On one of the last days of this year’s legislative session, Montana Rep. Ed Stafman — who is also a rabbi — learned that he would not, as expected, deliver that day’s invocation. He had chosen some ...

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 ...

Opening prayer is now banned at city council meetings in Phoenix, Ariz., prompted by a group of Satanists who sought to deliver an invocation of their own. Members of the Phoenix City Council voted to ...

A Christian County Library Board trustee's proposal to open meetings with an invocation failed to gain a second. Public comment at the meeting was supportive of the proposal, while prior social media ...

The hot-button issue of prayer before government meetings has flared up again — this time in Lake County — after a secular group delivered an invocation and a city commissioner felt compelled to ...

A leader of a Central Florida group of atheists, humanists and nonbelievers said he felt disrespected by Lake County officials who responded to his secular invocation at a county commission meeting ...

The Pennsylvania lawmaker who delivered a controversial prayer before a legislative session Monday that sparked backlash for its numerous references to Jesus, Israel and political leaders said she won ...

A Pennsylvania lawmaker was accused of "weaponizing" religion after she delivered a Christian invocation on the floor of the State Capitol Monday, the same day the first Muslim woman was sworn into ...

When Rick Warren was invited to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration, the choice annoyed some people because of Warren’s conservative position on several important and controversial ...