The Lewisville school district has always allowed students to say prayers at high school graduations. That tradition will continue this year, except these prayers will not be called invocations or ...

An Irmo High School graduate has sued to stop prayers at future graduation ceremonies.Eighteen-year-old Matthew Nielson sued to block prayer, saying the invocation offered at his ceremony amounted to ...

LOWER POTTSGROVE >> Internal emails provided to The Mercury reveal that the person who complained about prayer in the invocation and benediction at last year’s Pottsgrove High School graduation was ...

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The lawsuit alleged that the graduation prayers violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment — "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" — and included a request ...

It happens every year around this time: a public high school in a small town schedules a graduation prayer in plain violation of the 1992 Supreme Court case prohibiting such prayers, Lee v. Weisman; ...

MUSKEGON, MI - Muskegon Community College will continue to include an invocation in its commencement ceremony, but with some changes. In response to a complaint, the MCC Board of Trustees voted ...

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery recently ruled in favor of Christa and Danny Schultz who objected to prayer being offered at their son's Texas school graduation. Judge Biery ruled that Christa, Danny ...

The valedictorian of a high school in a San Antonio suburb where a judge has banned formal prayers at graduation ceremonies on Saturday is fighting for an opportunity to lead the crowd in prayer.

LOWER POTTSGROVE >> Continuing to program for an invocation and/or benediction at graduation ceremonies would put Pottsgrove schools in direct violation of the “establishment clause” of the U.S.