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 ...

“Although it was rarely enforced, bad faith actors have used the Johnson Amendment as a tool to intimidate churches into remaining silent on a whole host of biblically informed electoral issues—not ...

The Catholic Church "maintains its stance of not endorsing or opposing political candidates," said U.S. Conference of ...

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

Opponents of the Johnson Amendment even encouraged pastors to violate the law in acts of civil disobedience. About 30 churches participated in the first Pulpit Freedom Sunday in 2008. More than ...

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 ...