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

A decades-old rule prohibited politicking from the pulpit. Without it, some worry churches could become “linchpins to sway ...

There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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