Brevard's newest school board member is kicking 2025 off with a goal of putting prayer at the start of meetings. Adding a voluntary invocation before board meetings, John Thomas said, would be “a ...

The Tulsa City Council is doing away with the opening invocation prayer after controversy sparked last year. Instead of an opening invocation, the council will now open their meeting with a moment of ...

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 ...

The Pope brought the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the presidents of Israel and Palestine together on Pentecost Sunday for an unprecedented prayer service in the Vatican Gardens.

Father Leo O’Donovan, who served as president of Georgetown University from 1989 to 2001, is slated to deliver the invocation prayer at President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. O’Donovan ...

City councilors voted Wednesday to amend the Council Rules and Order of Business to remove the invocation before regular council meetings and replace it with a moment of “silent prayer or personal ...

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 ...

(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 ...