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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, N.C. — Prayer was banned at Lincoln County board meetings after people said the chairman walked out before the board’s first Muslim invocation Monday night. Commissioner Alex Patton, ...

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 ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) -- Green Bay won't be getting rid of the opportunity to pray at the beginning of its city council meetings. Instead, the council voted Tuesday night to have the mayor's office ...

[T]here was a prayer said in Groton before town meeting, but it wasn’t said without protest. In fact, the time set aside for a religious invocation started with a comment from a resident who ...

Starting next year, prayer invocations will no longer be on the Eureka City Council’s agendas. The decision was made earlier this week when the council voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance that ...

A preacher’s pre-race invocation at Nashville Superspeedway became one of NASCAR’s most famous moments. Joe Nelms delivered it before the Federated Auto Parts 300 in July 2011, when he was asked to ...