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.

A public school board’s policy and practice of opening its public meetings with invocation was struck down by a federal appeals court. In Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Chino Valley Unified ...

The Homer Glen Village Board will begin its business with a prayer following a vote Wednesday to add an invocation at the start of public meetings. Village officials said the brief invocation prayer ...

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 ...

Municipal governments throughout the Las Vegas Valley kick off meetings with a prayer, and the clergy who offer blessings represent different faiths and denominations. Aron Ra had his turn at the May ...

(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 invocation given before Huntington Beach City Council meetings has been an afterthought in the minds of many. It has traditionally been handled by leaders of the Greater Huntington Beach ...

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 ...