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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richmond, VA – The ACLU of Virginia has asked members of a House of Delegates committee to reject a bill that permits sectarian prayers at events sponsored by the State Police. In a memo delivered ...

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 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 ...

In the Maryland House of Delegates, there are prayers but no preachers. And no mention of Jesus. Or Allah for that matter. And so they pray for mothers, for the troops, for peace. They've recited ...

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 ...