For longtime NASCAR fans, there’s a significant moment in the sport’s history that will always be connected to the 1.33-mile ...

Blessed be the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Blessed be the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Blessed be St. Jude Thaddeus, in all the world ...

During Syria’s civil war, protecting the revered Sayyida Zeinab shrine was a rallying cry for some Shiite fighters and groups ...

The first of the group’s seven tenets, for example is this ... sect in or stop the prayers altogether,” they said. Stanton acknowledged their right to give an invocation but also said ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good ...

In a rare 4-3 vote, the Twin Falls City Council on Monday approved a resolution to have an invocation, or prayer, at the beginning of public city council meetings. Debate grew heated as councilors ...

Members of a satanic group are set to give the prayer at an upcoming meeting of ... Shortt and Stu de Haan are expected to give the invocation at the council's Feb. 17 meeting after the group ...

By having that invocation, Rogers and the Stokes County ... That letter specifically cited the graduation and school board meeting prayers, examples Americans United say are in violation of ...

The Jan. 21 meeting, for example, opened with a Christian ... jurisdictions typically do not include prayer at meetings. She told KGW that the invocation has been a fixture in Clark County ...

Reciting a Christian prayer before every meeting gives a whiff of state-funded religion and, to me, reeks of exclusion. To make it abundantly clear, the commissioner delivering the invocation ends ...

Adding a voluntary invocation before board meetings ... That would allow, for example, prayers to be said by religious groups different than only those followed by board members.