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 ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – Speaker of the House Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) announced Thursday that prayers and invocations will return to the House and be delivered before sessions begin. The ...

This PennLive article appeared on PA Post. The Rev. Carl Janicki of St. Genevieve Church of Flourtown, Montgomery County, offered the opening prayer on Wednesday in the Pennsylvania House of ...

HOMER, Alaska (AP) — A pastor wearing a colander on his head offered the opening prayer on behalf of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to open a local government meeting in Alaska, the latest ...

Atheists, agnostics and others who don't believe in God can be barred from giving invocations at the Pennsylvania statehouse, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The decision by the 3rd Circuit ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — Ottawa County Commissioner Doug Zylstra disagrees with a policy change allowing an ordained minister of Satan to give opening prayer during a board meeting Tuesday. "In my ...

REPRESENTATIVES WILL RESUME OPENING ITS SESSIONS WITH FAITH-BASED PRAYERS, MORE THAN -- AFTER A FEDERAL APPEALS COURT SAID THE PRACTICE IS CONSTITUTIONAL. REPUBLICAN SPEAKER MIKE TURZAI ANNOUNCED ...

The White House has begun vetting invocations given by ministers before presidential events, said to be an unusual by members of past administration and religious authorities. The White House Office ...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives went to federal court to maintain an opening prayer that invokes a higher power and it came at a high cost to taxpayers. When all the legal bills were tallied ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOMER, Alaska (AP) — A pastor wearing a ...

A “Pastafarian” pastor on Tuesday gave an opening prayer on behalf of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster before a local government meeting in Alaska while wearing a colander on his head.

Fritz Creek area resident Barrett Fletcher gives the invocation before a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting as a representative of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster at Homer City Hall ...