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 ...

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.

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 ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, N.C. — Prayer was banned at Lincoln County board meetings after people said the chairman walked out before the board’s first Muslim invocation Monday night. Commissioner Alex Patton, ...

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 ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) -- Green Bay won't be getting rid of the opportunity to pray at the beginning of its city council meetings. Instead, the council voted Tuesday night to have the mayor's office ...

[T]here was a prayer said in Groton before town meeting, but it wasn’t said without protest. In fact, the time set aside for a religious invocation started with a comment from a resident who ...

In my February column about the preponderance of Christ-centered invocations at the Texas Legislature, Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, complained respectfully about the lack of inclusiveness in some of ...

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 ...