Instead of an opening invocation, the council will now open their meeting with a moment of silent prayer or personal reflection.

District 4 Tulsa City Councilor Laura Bellis proposed switching from an opening prayer at the start of City Council meetings to a moment of silence. Current Council rules call for regular ...

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The Tulsa City Council will no longer have a prayer before its meetings. The decision came after a pagan woman gave the opening invocation last fall, which drew significant criticism. The council ...

The upcoming ceremony — which is also expected to include an opening prayer from Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York — will make Trump just the second president to serve nonconsecutive terms ...

Brevard's newest school board member is kicking 2025 off with a goal of putting prayer at the start of meetings. Adding a voluntary invocation before board meetings, John Thomas said, would be ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan will lead the opening prayer for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Cardinal Dolan, the archbishop of New York, announced he would take part in the ...