The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.

The policy change reverses a ban on endorsing or opposing candidates by religious organizations known as the Johnson ...

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

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

Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders ...

In court filings July 7, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...

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

A surprise move by the IRS that would allow pastors to back political candidates from the pulpit without losing their organization’s tax-exempt status is drawing praise from ...

Although seldom enforced, The Johnson Act has long been a source of tension between religious groups and federal regulators.

The decades-old Johnson Amendment does not apply to speech by houses of worship to its congregation through “customary channels of communication,” the IRS said in a July 7 court filing in the ...

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