Municipal governments throughout the Las Vegas Valley kick off meetings with a prayer, and the clergy who offer blessings ...

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 ...

A public school board’s policy and practice of opening its public meetings with invocation was struck down by a federal appeals court. In Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Chino Valley Unified ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

If Chaz Stevens has his way, those would be the opening words of a prayer at a future city commission meeting. Stevens, a blogger from Deerfield Beach, said he doesn’t believe in Satan. He’s an ...

All 30 NBA teams have at least one volunteer chaplain who caters to the spiritual needs of the players, and every NBA arena has a designated area where players from both teams can gather before a game ...

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.

(RNS) — The Oklahoma City Thunder is the only NBA team to hold a public, ecumenical invocation before the singing of the ...