Council members pumped the brakes Tuesday after Mayor Randy Westlund proposed adding an invocation to the top of future city meetings.

(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 at ...

It’s not everyday that you hear the words “Hail Satan” uttered at a local government meeting. An opening invocation given at a Washoe County Commissioners meeting raised some eyebrowns Tuesday when ...

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 ...

LAS CRUCES — “The beginning of a governmental business meeting is not the time for prayer,” Jan Thompson told the board of Doña Ana County Commissioners on Tuesday. Since 2018, the commissioners’ ...

WEBVTT IT'S A SLAP IN THIS FACE TO BE TOLD YOU CANNOT PAR TIS PANT PATE. ATHEISTS DEMANDED THE RIGHT TO GIVE INVOCATION AT THE BEGINNING OF A BREVARD COUNTY COMMISSION MEETING. THEY WERE TURNED AWAY.

The invocation delivered before every Newport News City Council meeting has become a point of contention for some council members. Before the pandemic, the invocation was delivered by religious ...