WASHINGTON — It happens every week at meetings in towns, counties and cities nationwide. A lawmaker or religious leader leads a prayer before officials begin the business of zoning changes, contract ...

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 ...

The Obama administration has surprised its supporters and some in the Republican party by agreeing that town councils should be allowed to open meetings with a Christian prayer. Several towns across ...

CLARK COUNTY, Wash. — The Clark County Council is facing controversy over its longstanding practice of starting meetings with prayer. For years, the council has opened its sessions with an "invocation ...

In response to letter writer Neil Matzkin, who objected to prayer before Clark County School Board meetings: In 2014, the Supreme Court upheld a New York state town’s practice of opening its municipal ...

Despite a recent Supreme Court decision allowing prayer during the invocations at town hall meetings, local officials seem to prefer opening meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance or a moment of ...

A North Carolina school board meeting turned hostile after one board member lashed out at a Christian board member's proposal to adopt a prayer before meetings, asking, "How much prayer do you need?" ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It happens every week at meetings in towns, counties and cities nationwide. A lawmaker or religious leader leads a prayer before officials begin the business of zoning changes, ...

I keep hearing about local school boards and councils led by conservative Christians insisting that public meetings open with prayer. What’s up with that? I assume these professed Christians have read ...

In response to A.J. Maimbourg’s letter lamenting that the Clark County School Board attacked his rights by abolishing prayer at the beginning of its meetings: Nothing is preventing Mr. Maimbourg from ...

I am responding to the Leader editorial of June 4, which recommended ending the invocation prayer at Hutchinson City Council meetings. The town’s ministerial association maintains a rotation list of ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — For the first time, the Satanic Temple of West Michigan will lead the opening prayer at the Ottawa County Commission. This isn't the first time the religious group has been in ...