The U.S. Supreme Court announced last month that when the justices return from their summer vacations they will tackle a uniquely American church-state constitutional question they have avoided for ...

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 ...

TAVARES — Sitting in the County Commission chambers this week, Gail Boettger couldn’t believe it when the meeting began not with a Christian prayer but with a secular invocation. The secular ...

Hemant Mehta began Tuesday's DuPage County Board meeting by asking everyone to open their eyes and look around. It was an unconventional start to what would normally be a public prayer. But Mehta, who ...

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 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 ...

Today, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of a town board in upstate New York, and by extension, governmental bodies everywhere, to begin official meetings with a Christian ...

(RNS) What do atheists “pray” for? Municipalities around the country are finding out, as nonbelievers of all stripes—atheists, humanists, agnostics, and other freethinkers—begin giving invocations at ...

MACCLENNY | Baker County Commissioner Jimmy Anderson said he has a message for objectors to the Christian-based invocations given before all commission meetings: You may leave and return when it's ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, NC (WBTV) - The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners passed a policy Monday allowing any religious leader in the county to sign up to deliver invocation before council meetings. The ...

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 ...