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 ...

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 ...

The La Crosse city council could hold its final invocation prayer Thursday after a subcommittee recommended the city drop the practice. The Judiciary & Administration committee voted 5-1 with one ...

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 ...

(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 ...