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.

State Rep. Athena Salman, D-Tempe, is in the middle of a national controversy over the meaning of prayer after she gave an invocation last Tuesday to begin the daily Arizona House session. After ...

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 ...

Despite controversy surrounding a prayer at the July 17 Alabama Public Service Commission, invocations are common at public meetings throughout the state. An invocation - be it a prayer or a more ...

Municipal governments throughout the Las Vegas Valley kick off meetings with a prayer, and the clergy who offer blessings ...

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 ...

Starting next year, prayer invocations will no longer be on the Eureka City Council’s agendas. The decision was made earlier this week when the council voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance that ...

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 ...