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 ...

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.

Last May, Charles Warren made a simple request of his fellow Brunwick County Commissioners – let's invite local clergy and religious leaders to give the prayer or invocation that opens each meeting.

(RNS) What do atheists “pray” for? Municipalities around the country are finding out, as nonbelievers of all stripes — atheists, humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers — begin giving invocations ...

The widow of slain Civil Rights organizer Medgar Evers will deliver the invocation at President Obama's inauguration. Myrlie Evers-Williams will become the first woman, and someone other than clergy, ...

Brevard County commissioners have dropped religious invocations from the start of their meeting agendas after a federal judge issued an injunction banning the county from continuing its long-standing ...

For the first time on Tuesday, Oct. 21, a Hindu clergyman will give the opening invocation at Meridian and Star's city ...

The Eureka City Council’s practice of allowing nonsectarian prayer invocations at their meetings will remain in effect after a challenge in the state’s 1st Circuit Court of Appeal was dismissed ...

Scottsdale will head to court Tuesday to defend a city council decision to block Satanists from leading a council meeting invocation. Meanwhile, another metro Phoenix city is adding prayer to the ...

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 ...

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 ...