Many governing bodies have a system in place to select community members to deliver an invocation or say a prayer at regular meetings, rarely sparking the outrage recently directed at the Alabama ...

The Vatican has released the prayers and program for tomorrow's 'Invocation for Peace' (see below). The prayer meeting, hosted by Pope Francis in the Vatican Gardens, will be attended by the Israeli ...

SOLDOTNA — A debate on the Kenai Peninsula over the separation of church and state continued Wednesday with a peaceful encounter between a group of praying Catholics and mostly secular ...

Recently I have read a number of pieces in the paper regarding the question of invocations or prayers before public meetings. Someone suggested that people who don’t like these things just step out of ...

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 ...

That one word — and what it might or might not connote — has Brown County supervisors divided over whether they should continue to open County Board meetings with an invocation, or replace it with a ...

The Homer Glen Village Board will begin its business with a prayer following a vote Wednesday to add an invocation at the start of public meetings. Village officials said the brief invocation prayer ...