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 ...

A young woman carries a crucifix in the offertory during Mass at the international border in Nogales, Ariz., Oct. 23, as an offertory gift to recall migrants who have died in the deserts of Arizona.

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 ...

Starting next year, prayer invocations will no longer be on the Eureka City Council’s agendas. The decision was made earlier this week when the council voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance that ...

The Sarasota County School Board is on firm legal ground in allowing prayer invocations before meetings ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tulsa City Council is doing away with the opening invocation prayer after controversy sparked last year. Instead of an opening ...

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 ...

A public school board’s policy and practice of opening its public meetings with invocation was struck down by a federal appeals court. In Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. v. Chino Valley Unified ...

The Eureka City Council’s practice of allowing nonsectarian prayer invocations at their meetings will remain in effect after a challenge in the state’s 1st Circuit Court of Appeal was dismissed ...

The Sarasota County School Board must stop holding prayer invocations before meetings.