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 ...

POST FALLS, Idaho — Council members pumped the brakes Tuesday after Mayor Randy Westlund proposed opening future city meetings with an invocation. “I would like to add a simple non-sectarian ...

Atheists, agnostics and others who don't believe in God can be barred from giving invocations at the Pennsylvania statehouse, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The decision by the 3rd Circuit ...

OTTAWA COUNTY — A local pastor said he finally was invited to give the invocation for a meeting of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners — but only after he sued for religious discrimination. Rev.