RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Elected officials’ practice of opening meetings in North Carolina with Christian prayer and inviting audience members to join is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a closely watched case likely headed for the U.S. ...

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Every day at lunch, a handful of teenagers in Frisco, Texas, would pop into room C112, face a whiteboard and kneel for one of their five daily prayers. It was just a spare classroom, used for everything from teachers’ grading ...

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GREECE (AP) — The upstate New York residents who challenged their town board’s prayer practice before the nation’s highest court said their disappointment in losing is softened by the dialogue and action the case has inspired. A day after the ...

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It is not unconstitutional for the town of Greece to open its Town Board meetings with a prayer, even if the prayer expresses the beliefs of one faith, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday morning in a 5-4 decision in ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case involving prayers at public Greece town meetings. Certiorari was granted earlier today in a case first brought to federal court in February 2008 by Greece residents Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens. The town ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a North Carolina county commission over the mostly Christian prayers offered at the beginning of its public meetings. The justices on Tuesday left in place a federal appeals court ruling ...

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A town of Greece case involving prayer at public meetings is in the hands of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Oral arguments were heard Monday in New York City. Town residents Susan Galloway and Linda Stephens ...

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