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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

City councilors voted Wednesday to amend the Council Rules and Order of Business to remove the invocation before regular council meetings and replace it with a moment of “silent prayer or personal ...

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 ...

All eyes focused on the Rev. Joseph Tolton as he stood at the head of the City Council chamber and took over the microphone on a recent Wednesday just before the council passed a series of bills ...

CHARLOTTE — The Carolina Panthers will receive a special blessing before taking on the Los Angeles Rams in the playoffs Saturday. Rabbi Asher Knight will give an invocation prayer ahead of kickoff at ...

The La Crosse city council could hold its final invocation prayer Thursday after a subcommittee recommended the city drop the practice.

PHOENIX — An ongoing fight in the Arizona House over what constitutes a real prayer has heated up once again. The latest skirmish came last week after Democratic Rep. Athena Salman of Tempe delivered ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan put both his rhetorical gifts and his thorough knowledge of U.S. history to good use in giving the invocation at the 60th presidential inauguration. His public speaking skills ...

That’s how the Rev. Arnold Conrad began his controversial invocation at Saturday’s John McCain rally in the Davenport RiverCenter. That part of Conrad’s plea seemed effective. A vast audience now is ...