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 ...

Over the last five years, almost all invocations before Modesto City Council meetings have been given by Christian faith leaders, but it’s unclear when the practice began or how it might impact civic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brevard's newest school board member is kicking 2025 off with a goal of putting prayer at the start of meetings. Adding a voluntary invocation before board meetings, John Thomas said, would be “a ...

On one of the last days of this year’s legislative session, Montana Rep. Ed Stafman — who is also a rabbi — learned that he would not, as expected, deliver that day’s invocation. He had chosen some ...

Last week, we saw how the Second Eucharistic Prayer in the Roman Missal started in one format and, by careful editing, ended in the most familiar of the four Eucharistic Prayers. This week, let's ...

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 ...

Fans at an Alabama high school football game joined together last Friday to recite the Lord's Prayer after the school system decided to end the tradition of a pre-game invocation over the loudspeaker.

Tempers flared during a special meeting Thursday night at the Pensacola City Hall. The meeting was called to discuss ending prayer before Pensacola City Council meetings. The council president called ...

The Geddes Town Board begins its meetings with a 28-word prayer so old that that no one knows where it came from. In Auburn, the city council begins the meeting with a moment of silence during which ...

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 ...