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 ...

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 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 ...

According to House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), if everyone had just prayed more, 19 children and two teachers might not have been massacred by a gunman in a ...

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 ...

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 ...