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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Johnson Amendment has been used to chill free speech in churches. The IRS finally changed the rule in a recent decision.

The IRS says pastors who endorse political candidates from the pulpit should not have to risk losing their tax-exempt ...

This week, the Internal Revenue Service quietly ratified a change to its longstanding rules on allowing certain nonprofit groups, like churches, to take on political stances. News of the policy change ...

"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 ...

"I knew the law was on our side," the pastor of Liberty Baptist Church said after the IRS stated in a court filing that ...

The Internal Revenue Service made a statement on Monday that would allow churches to support political candidates of their ...