The Chicago City Council, like many other legislative bodies, typically opens meetings with an "invocation"—essentially, a prayer or moment of reflection. Clergy from a wide range of religious ...

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 ...

County commissioners believe they are on solid legal ground with a new policy for pre-meeting invocations that they approved Tuesday. The County Commission has not had invocations at the start of its ...