The debate over school prayer has reared its head in Arkansas this week. Two sixth grade graduations were cancelled in Riverside Unified School District after a parent protested against a prayer that ...

WASHINGTON, Ill. – The class valedictorian was booed and another student was applauded for holding a moment of silence after a judge barred prayer at Washington Community High School's graduation. A ...

School officials in Lake City, Ark., have come up with a novel solution to the fight over prayer at graduation: No prayer, no graduation. On May 6, the school board voted to cancel sixth-grade ...

Student-led graduation messages, which opponents call official school prayer in thin disguise, may continue in Jacksonville, Fla., high schools. The Supreme Court said Monday it will not review a ...

PEORIA, Ill. – A federal judge on Thursday barred Washington Community High School from allowing student-led prayer at this weekend's graduation ceremony -- the first time in the school's 80-year ...

In a pluralistic democracy, government should not be in the business of promoting religion. It’s graduation season: a time for speeches, processions—and lawsuits over whether it’s legal to pray at ...

At this year's graduation ceremony for students of Medina Valley High School, publicly uttered prayer is out — but individual references to a higher being are allowed. Such was the ruling Tuesday from ...

Ministers, rabbis and priests will probably invoke God’s blessings on area graduates this year, but future commencement prayers are up to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court decided this week to review ...