The Chicago City Council, like many other legislative bodies, typically opens meetings with an "invocation"—essentially, a prayer or moment of reflection. Clergy from a wide range of religious ...

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 ...

Tuesday's Brevard County Commission meeting was preceded by an invocation — for the first time in more than three years. As a result of a federal lawsuit successfully brought by atheist, agnostic and ...

The City Council voted this week to remove Alameda from a small list of Bay Area cities that hold pre-meeting invocations. The prayer issue--hotly debated by religious leaders and community activists- ...

County commissioners believe they are on solid legal ground with a new policy for pre-meeting invocations that they approved Tuesday. The County Commission has not had invocations at the start of its ...