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 ...

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 ...

The Chicago City Council, like many other legislative bodies, typically opens meetings with an "invocation"—essentially, a prayer or moment of reflection. Clergy from a wide range of religious ...

The Kannapolis City Council unanimously voted for an invocation policy that will introduce a prayer at the beginning of the council meetings. The City Council approved the policy […] ...

The invocation given before Huntington Beach City Council meetings has been an afterthought in the minds of many. It has traditionally been handled by leaders of the Greater Huntington Beach ...

State Rep. Athena Salman, D-Tempe, is in the middle of a national controversy over the meaning of prayer after she gave an invocation last Tuesday to begin the daily Arizona House session. After ...

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 ...

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 ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — A member of The Satanic Temple West Michigan is set to deliver the opening prayer at an Ottawa County Board of Commissioners meeting tonight. The Satanic Temple West Michigan ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — Protest and support chants erupted in the lobby steps away from the Ottawa County board podium, where a leader of a West Michigan satanic group led the commissioners in prayer ...

Members of the U.S. Supreme Court passed up an opportunity earlier this week to clarify the role of government in regulating the content of public invocations that have gone on since the founding of ...