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 ...

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.

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 Chicago City Council, like many other legislative bodies, typically opens meetings with an "invocation"—essentially, a prayer or moment of reflection. Clergy from a wide range of religious ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are a lot of pregame traditions that are unique to the Army-Navy Game, including the march-on of the Corps of Cadets and Brigade of Midshipmen, flyovers by military aircraft and the “prisoner” ...

PHOENIX (AP) - 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 ...

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 ...