Yahoo

Tulsa City Council eliminates opening prayer after pagan invocation raises concerns

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 ...
WZZM

Ottawa County commissioner says Satanic Temple's opening prayer invitation at board meeting is 'senseless charade'

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 ...
Yahoo

'An example to students': Brevard school board discusses adding prayer at meetings

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Huntington Beach mayor will select who gives invocation at City Council meetings

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 ...
Arizona State Press

Secular invocation sparks a statehouse battle over the meaning of prayer

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 ...
The Forward

This lawmaker and rabbi was scheduled to deliver an invocation. His colleagues replaced him with a Christian

On one of the last days of this year’s legislative session, Montana Rep. Ed Stafman — who is also a rabbi — learned that he would not, as expected, deliver that day’s invocation. He had chosen some ...
Chicago Tribune

Homer Glen votes to add invocation prayers before Village Board meetings

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 ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Carlsbad to ban prayers at City Council meetings. ‘Faith is deeply personal.’

Thoughts and prayers will no longer precede Carlsbad City Council meetings. Officials in the North County city voted this week to discontinue the invocations that have launched its meetings off and on ...
Columbus Dispatch

Proposal to add prayer to Christian County Library Board meetings dies without a vote

A Christian County Library Board trustee's proposal to open meetings with an invocation failed to gain a second. Public comment at the meeting was supportive of the proposal, while prior social media ...
Tulsa World

Tulsa City Council replaces invocation prayer with moment of silence

City councilors voted Wednesday to amend the Council Rules and Order of Business to remove the invocation before regular council meetings and replace it with a moment of “silent prayer or personal ...
WTKR

Norfolk Catholic priest to deliver invocation at historic Spanberger inauguration

NORFOLK, Va. — As Virginia prepares for a historic inauguration weekend, a Hampton Roads priest will help set the tone for the ceremony marking a new chapter in state leadership. Father Jim Curran, ...