A Legislative Prayer According to a City Council spokesperson, the council has not received any complaints on its invocation practice. They offer all council members an opportunity to bring in a ...

Arizona House Majority Leader John Allen issued an informal directive this year defining what constitutes a prayer. It should be “short, focused on a higher power, and serve no political ...

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 ...

On a cool and breezy morning, elected officials, business leaders, community members and pastors shared breakfast Thursday morning, followed by a time of prayer and contemplation. The annual Duncan ...

The Eureka City Council’s practice of allowing nonsectarian prayer invocations at their meetings will remain in effect after a challenge in the state’s 1st Circuit Court of Appeal was… ...

Myrlie Evers-Williams will deliver the invocation at President Obama's inauguration, reportedly becoming the first woman, and someone other than clergy, to say the prayer that precedes the ...

The Homer Glen Village Board will begin its business with a prayer following a vote Wednesday to add an invocation at the start of public meetings. Village officials said the brief invocation praye… ...

Iris Fontana, who offered the Satanic invocation, said she wanted to see equality in the invocations before the borough assembly. Most of the past invocations have been offered by Christian pastors.