A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. In a July 7 legal proceeding, the Internal Revenue Service said in court filings that these organizations are able to throw their ...

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

The IRS veered away from banning political endorsements in houses of worship, spurring differing views from Houston's ...

The new IRS interpretation came after decades of debate and, most recently, lawsuits from the National Religious Broadcasters ...

In 1954, Texas Sen. Lyndon Johnson proposed an amendment to the Internal Revenue Code that has strangled the free speech and religious liberty of churches and the pastors who lead them ever since.

There have been attempts throughout the years to eliminate the Johnson Amendment. During his first term, President Donald Trump in 2017 signed an executive order stopping its enforcement, but the ...

The IRS said that religious leaders could endorse political candidates in churches and other religious centers without losing their tax-exempt status — carving out an exemption from a decades-old tax ...