Federal District Court Judge Michael Urbanski today ruled that the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors violated the First Amendment rights of ACLU of Virginia client Barbara Hudson by opening ...

Overview: The Ninth Circuit recently upheld as constitutional a city council’s practice of opening its sessions with prayer. The court upheld the city’s policy concerning such prayers, which extended ...

Adding a prayer would involve the council approving a resolution in a vote adapting a new policy to insert invocation onto a ...

“Speak your mind or stick to the prayer?” That’s the question the Jacksonville City Council will grapple with in the coming weeks after a bill filed by Council President Aaron Bowman. The bill would ...

Pastor Mike Metzger, right, of First Bible Baptist Church, leads a moment of prayer March 14 at the start of the Greece Town Board meeting in Greece, N.Y. The Supreme Court said Monday that prayers ...

A North Carolina county is shelling out $285,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union to settle a five-year-old lawsuit over its prayer practices. Rowan County commissioners approved the ...

A small town outside of Columbus, Ohio has councilmembers under fire for opening its meetings with a Christian prayer that a separation of church and state group says is forcing religion on its ...

Mon, 05 May 2014 14:40:13 GMT — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that government meetings can include an opening prayer without violating the constitution. The case centered around the town of Greece, N ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — A member of The Satanic Temple West Michigan is set to deliver the opening prayer at an Ottawa County Board of Commissioners meeting tonight. The Satanic Temple West Michigan ...

The founder of Reno Satanic gave the opening prayer at Tuesday’s Washoe County Commission meeting, ending not with an “Amen” but with “Hail, Satan.” The group claimed on social media that it was the ...

A nonprofit that supports the separation of church and state has asked the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board to stop opening their meetings with Christian prayer.Top Stories:Wells Fargo robbed ...

Several attendees at a government meeting open to the public in Alaska walked out in protest after an opening prayer praised Satan. The Associated Press reports the prayer, where a woman declared ...