TAVARES — Sitting in the County Commission chambers this week, Gail Boettger couldn’t believe it when the meeting began not with a Christian prayer but with a secular invocation. The secular ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced last month that when the justices return from their summer vacations they will tackle a uniquely American church-state constitutional question they have avoided for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 21—A regular meeting in Lula became a symbolic showdown over religion and the First Amendment Monday, when about 30 people ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attention rabbis and shamans and imams and roshis: El Paso County wants you. In the six months since county commissioners stepped up the frequency of praying before board meetings from once a month to ...

Hemant Mehta began Tuesday's DuPage County Board meeting by asking everyone to open their eyes and look around. It was an unconventional start to what would normally be a public prayer. But Mehta, who ...

(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 at ...

Today, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of a town board in upstate New York, and by extension, governmental bodies everywhere, to begin official meetings with a Christian ...

Thank you to Rabbi Jack Paskoff for providing numerous examples of Christian prayer in Lancaster County’s public schools over the past decades (“High court tramples rights of religious minorities in ...