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 ...

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 ...

Apopka’s practice of bowing in prayer at public meetings will continue, with new legal protections from a written invocation policy. The policy accepted by the city council Wednesday evening ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a lower-court ruling that the Brevard County Commission illegally excluded representatives of atheist and other "nontheist" groups from giving invocations at ...

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’ ...

Attention rabbis and shamans and imams and roshis: El Paso County wants you. In the six months since county commissioners stepped up the frequency of praying before board meetings from once a month to ...

Brevard County Commissioner Curt Smith wants to bring invocations back at commission meetings — or at least just before them. Commission meetings haven't had an invocation since November 2017, as a ...

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