PHOENIX – An ongoing fight in the Arizona House over what constitutes a real prayer has heated up again. The latest skirmish came last week after Democratic Rep. Athena Salman of Tempe delivered the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia on Friday upheld the House of Representatives’ requirement that it start each day it is in session with a religious prayer. The unanimous ruling ...

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 prayer ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.