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 ...

RANCHO CORDOVA (CBS13) — Monday's Rancho Cordova City Council invocation was given by a agnostic minister with the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, as part of a protest against the existence of ...

It was a tough audience for a 'Pastafarian' pastor delivering the invocation at an Alaskan government meeting on behalf of the 'Church of the Flying Spaghetti.' A few people held back smiles, but most ...

SOLDOTNA, Alaska (AP) - A pastor wearing a spaghetti strainer on his head delivered the opening invocation at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting Tuesday. The invocation by the pastor of the ...

The Satanic Temple alleges its First Amendment rights were violated. — -- A rejected request from Satanists to give an invocation at a city council meeting has prompted a religious discrimination ...

President-elect Joe Biden speaks as he announces his Justice Department nominees at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Del., Jan. 7, 2021. (Credit: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters via CNS.) Listen ...

The Vatican's divine worship office announced Saturday the addition of seven new invocations to the Litany of St. Joseph. The seven invocations, in Latin, are Custos Redemptoris, Serve Christi, ...

COLLIN COUNTY (CBSDW.COM) - The mayor of Wylie has admitted he doesn't believe women should lead prayers in church or during political meetings, but says people are reading more into a recent email ...

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 ...

Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is ...

HOMER — A pastor wearing a colander on his head offered the opening prayer on behalf of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to open a local government meeting in Alaska, the latest blessing ...