Each Polk County Commission meeting begins with a prayer led by a church leader, or in some cases, with a secular invocation by an atheist group. If the commission approves a change to the process ...

The Homer Glen Village Board will begin its business with a prayer following a vote Wednesday to add an invocation at the start of public meetings. Village officials said the brief invocation prayer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The DuPage County Board will continue its decadeslong tradition of beginning meetings with a public prayer. Board members on Tuesday voted 11-6 to approve a resolution affirming the practice of ...

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 invocation given before Huntington Beach City Council meetings has been an afterthought in the minds of many. It has traditionally been handled by leaders of the Greater Huntington Beach ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) -- Green Bay won't be getting rid of the opportunity to pray at the beginning of its city council meetings. Instead, the council voted Tuesday night to have the mayor's office ...

For the first time in Grand Junction's history, an atheist will deliver the invocation at Wednesday night's City Council meeting. The event is a landmark for the local atheists' group, Western ...