The invocation delivered before every Newport News City Council meeting has become a point of contention for some council members. Before the pandemic, the invocation was delivered by religious ...

Tuesday's Brevard County Commission meeting was preceded by an invocation — for the first time in more than three years. As a result of a federal lawsuit successfully brought by atheist, agnostic and ...

Each Polk County Commission meeting begins with a prayer led by a church leader, or in some cases, with a secular invocation by an atheist group. If the commission approves a change to the process ...

With assurance from its attorney that the new process wouldn't discriminate against any religious groups or beliefs, the Polk County Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to change its invocation ...