Holding prayer before meetings was first discussed during a Jan. 9 board meeting. The original amendment board members could open meetings with prayer and prevented them from invoking "Jesus Christ" ...

HAMMOND | City Councilman Anthony Higgs said he will continue to offer a prayer at Hammond City Council meetings, amid the U.S. Supreme Court's review of the practice at local government meetings.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As cardinals left their final meeting before the conclave begins, they expressed confidence in their time of listening and prayer, and some predicted a relatively quick election ...

A North Carolina school board meeting turned hostile after one board member lashed out at a Christian board member's proposal to adopt a prayer before meetings, asking, "How much prayer do you need?" ...

The wood-lined walls of the Meridian City Council chambers have heard a lot: hours of testimony on proposed In-N-Outs; impassioned pleas about new subdivisions and the challenges of city growth. But ...

On the feast of the patron saint of immigrants — and a day after the U.S. Catholic bishops issued a special pastoral message on immigration — a coalition of Catholic organizations held a second wave ...