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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GREEN BAY — As the City Council began, as usual, with the Pledge of Allegiance, the idea behind its words of “One nation, under God, indivisible” was under scrutiny Tuesday. The issue divided not just ...

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 ...

On Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, there’s a list of people signed up to read invocations to open borough Assembly meetings in 2019. The list includes Christian pastors, atheists and a member of the Church ...

TWIN FALLS — The city has received nine applications from residents and faith leaders to provide an invocation at the beginning of City Council meetings since it voted in March to approve the opening ...

The County Commission on Wednesday passed a resolution allowing commission members to give the invocation when needed at the start of their weekly meetings. Chairman Ken Smith said the commission will ...