Gov. Tom Wolf and state lawmakers are reacting to a prayer delivered Monday on the floor of the state House.Republican Rep. Stephanie Borowicz told WGAL she stands by the Christian invocation she ...
The prayer was for brotherhood, peace, courage and guidance — not dissimilar from the dozens of other prayers given before Sedgwick County Commission meetings this year. There was one key difference, ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Christian County Library Board trustee's proposal to open meetings with an invocation failed to gain a second. Public comment at the meeting was supportive of the proposal, while prior social media ...
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 ...
The hot-button issue of prayer before government meetings has flared up again — this time in Lake County — after a secular group delivered an invocation and a city commissioner felt compelled 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...