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 ...

Over the last five years, almost all invocations before Modesto City Council meetings have been given by Christian faith leaders, but it’s unclear when the practice began or how it might impact civic ...

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 ...

A federal appeals court in the District of Columbia on Friday upheld the House of Representatives’ requirement that it start each day it is in session with a religious prayer. The unanimous ruling ...

On one of the last days of this year’s legislative session, Montana Rep. Ed Stafman — who is also a rabbi — learned that he would not, as expected, deliver that day’s invocation. He had chosen some ...

Pastor Rick Warren's spokesman is leaving open the question of whether the California evangelist will invoke the name of Jesus Christ when he delivers the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama's ...

The mayor here will be the ex-mayor by year’s end if residents angry over rules for prayers at Sturgis City Commission meetings have their way. A St. Joseph County panel ruled this week that ...

Last week, we saw how the Second Eucharistic Prayer in the Roman Missal started in one format and, by careful editing, ended in the most familiar of the four Eucharistic Prayers. This week, let's ...

Tempers flared during a special meeting Thursday night at the Pensacola City Hall. The meeting was called to discuss ending prayer before Pensacola City Council meetings. The council president called ...

The Geddes Town Board begins its meetings with a 28-word prayer so old that that no one knows where it came from. In Auburn, the city council begins the meeting with a moment of silence during which ...

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 ...