The Pennsylvania House's policy that bans atheists from providing an invocation at the start of legislative sessions does not violate the Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled. On Friday, the ...

A D.C. federal appeals court ruled Friday that the House of Representatives does not have to allow a self-described atheist to deliver secular prayers. The Good Friday ruling concerned efforts by Dan ...

A group of people who don't believe in God are challenging the way prayers are handled before sessions of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Harrisburg federal ...

The House chaplain scored a legal victory on Good Friday, when a federal appeals court ruled he could not be ordered to allow a self-described atheist to offer a secular prayer to the House of ...

Prayer brought anything but peace to the House of Delegates yesterday. A Baltimore County minister’s fire-and-brimstone Christian homily led to a hastily reversed decision to end the practice of ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- U.S. District Court Judge David F. Hamilton today ordered the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Indiana General Assembly to stop permitting sectarian prayers from being ...

The Hawaii House of Representatives voted Wednesday to continue holding prayers before daily legislative sessions, unlike the state Senate, which became the first legislative body in the nation to ...

If their prayers before the House and Senate are any indication, congressional chaplains have a good deal of faith in the bible verse that says, “Ask, and it shall be given you.” Researchers from ...

Overlooked by many in Texas House Rule 16 — a “special rule” applicable “in the event of disruptions caused by actual or imminent threat of an emergency, including an epidemic or a pandemic” — is a ...

A House memo that Republican leadership says was simply intended to clarify the chamber's prayer policy has angered some secularists who say it discriminates against anyone who doesn't believe in God.

In the federal appeals court Friday, the atheist didn't have a prayer. A U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit sided with Father Patrick Conroy, the House chaplain, in ruling that he could not be ...