As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon become a part of ...

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

A 2019 survey by Pew Research found that 76% of Americans and 70% of Christians say clergy should not endorse candidates from ...

Florida houses of worship can now endorse political candidates in some cases, an exception created by the IRS recently.

I still won’t be. Because it wasn’t fear of jeopardizing my church’s tax exempt status that kept me quiet. It was fear of God ...

For more than 70 years, federal law has prohibited pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit. Now the IRS is letting it be known that it has no intention ...

The Johnson Amendment has been used to chill free speech in churches. The IRS finally changed the rule in a recent decision.

In 2024, two churches and a religious organization filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that ...

The IRS says pastors endorsing political candidates during services should not risk losing 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 ...

When you donate or pledge money to a religious institution, Uncle Sam does not take a bite of that cash. For years, the ...