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 ...

Municipal governments throughout the Las Vegas Valley kick off meetings with a prayer, and the clergy who offer blessings represent different faiths and denominations. Aron Ra had his turn at the May ...

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’ ...

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 ...

Brevard County is trying to prevent a group that doesn't believe in God from delivering the invocation at its meetings. It’s something five other Central Florida counties have allowed. The Brevard ...

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 ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Prayers before Coeur d’Alene City Council meetings could be seeing their final Amen, as reported by the Coeur d'Alene Press. The city, which recently took over scheduling ...

POST FALLS, Idaho — Council members pumped the brakes Tuesday after Mayor Randy Westlund proposed opening future city meetings with an invocation. “I would like to add a simple non-sectarian ...

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 ...

A leader of a Central Florida group of atheists, humanists and nonbelievers said he felt disrespected by Lake County officials who responded to his secular invocation at a county commission meeting ...