CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The new Southern Illinois University chancellor's decision to add a brief prayer during fall graduation ceremonies prompted about two dozen calls of protest, and he plans to form a ...

University of Maryland President C.D. Mote Jr., in a rare rebuff of the school's senate, announced yesterday that commencement ceremonies would continue to include an invocation. "For many people, a ...

— The Jewish school board president in a Pennsylvania town that has canceled the invocation at its high school commencement following controversial remarks by a student at last year’s ceremony said he ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A speaker at Millikin University's winter graduation has many students, faculty and alumni outraged after making transphobic comments during the ceremony. Reverend Wally Carlson ...

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The valedictorian of a high school in a San Antonio suburb where a judge has banned formal prayers at graduation ceremonies on Saturday is fighting for an opportunity to lead ...

PEORIA, Ill., May 17 -- A federal judge has barred student-led prayer at a suburban high school graduation Sunday, marking the first time in the school's 80-year history that a prayer will not be ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- An Irmo High School graduate has sued to stop prayers at future graduation ceremonies. Eighteen-year-old Matthew Nielson sued to block prayer, saying the invocation offered at ...

Public prayer will be allowed at a Texas high school graduation after a federal appeals court on Friday reversed a ban won by an agnostic family that claimed ceremony traditions such as invocations ...