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 IRS made clear that its revised interpretation still prohibits all non-profits from “participating” or “intervening” in a ...

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

An IRS clarification on churches endorsing political candidates to their congregations draws praise, concern from local ...

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

Churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates without risking the loss of their tax-exempt status, ...

The agency's agreement in a court filing formally reverses a decades-old provision of the tax code, but the motion would need ...

The IRS confirmed on Monday that pastors who endorse political candidates from the pulpit or through their church ...

Churches and other houses of worship registered as tax-exempt nonprofits can endorse political candidates to their ...

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