Preacher Joe Nelms delivered one of the most famous pre-race NASCAR invocations ahead of the Federated Auto Parts 300 at Nashville Superspeedway in July 2011.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 mayor here will be the ex-mayor by year’s end if residents angry over rules for prayers at Sturgis City Commission meetings have their way. A St. Joseph County panel ruled this week that ...

(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 ...