Pastors have always had the right to pray, vote, and engage, but now they will also have the freedom to endorse candidates if ...

The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.

In court filings July 7, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...

The 1954 Johnson Amendment (the law barring all nonprofit organizations like churches from engaging in partisan politics) has ...

There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...

Gavin Newsom (D), who is widely considered to be a leading contender for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in ...

IRS says it will no longer penalize houses of worship for endorsing political candidates during religious services, as long ...

If a judge approves a proposed court order, the IRS will soon allow churches to endorse candidates from the pulpit again ...

The IRS announced churches can endorse political candidates without penalty, but Oklahoma Bishop Poulson Reed advises against ...

Nor was it just that right-wing ministers were expressing Republican-shaped views about everything from LGBTQ rights to tax laws from the pulpit. Outside church walls, the massive ecosphere of ...

"Ours is not a blue or red diocese, but a purple one, and above all, a Christian one." 2 News Oklahoma's Braden Bates shares ...

Two East Texas churches, Sand Springs Church in Athens and First Baptist Church Waskom, were among the plaintiffs in the ...