Overview: The Ninth Circuit recently upheld as constitutional a city council’s practice of opening its sessions with prayer. The court upheld the city’s policy concerning such prayers, which extended ...

The Supreme Court has upheld the right of local officials to open town council meetings with prayer, ruling that this does not violate the Constitution even if the prayers routinely stress ...

The Rev. Alan Bentrup of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church was “uninvited” to deliver Keller Council's opening prayer ...

An Episcopal priest was uninvited to offer an opening prayer before a Keller City Council meeting this week after his church ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, will join the opening prayer during President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, he announced on ...

Instead of an opening invocation, the council will now open their meeting with a moment of silent prayer or personal reflection.

House Democrats’ moves to be gender-inclusive extended to an unusual addition to the closing “amen” of a prayer on the House floor. Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat, delivered the opening ...

REDWOOD CITY (KPIX 5) -- The city council in Redwood City has put opening prayers on hold after a local pastor stunned the council with some strong opening words at this week's meeting. Pastor Stephen ...

The Rev. Ron Zeigler of the Church of the Servant, Palmyra, prayed for senators to work well with their colleagues in his opening prayer for the Senate's session on Jan. 28. The state Senate and House ...

A divided Supreme Court said on Monday that prayers that open town council meetings do not violate the Constitution - even if they routinely stress Christianity. The court said in a 5-4 decision that ...

Pastor Mike Metzger, right, of First Bible Baptist Church, leads a moment of prayer March 14 at the start of the Greece Town Board meeting in Greece, N.Y. The Supreme Court said Monday that prayers ...