(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 ...

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 ...

Members of the Clark County council pray before a meeting, which they’ve done for the past four years. (Ariane Kunze/The Columbian) Four years ago, the then-Clark County commissioners voted to have a ...

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 ...

The Brown County Executive Committee takes up a contentious topic at Monday night’s meeting, involving the invocation, or prayer, at the start of each County Board meeting. Action 2 News has been ...

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’ ...

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 ...