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

The IRS announced churches can endorse political candidates without penalty, but Oklahoma Bishop Poulson Reed advises against ...

Two East Texas churches, Sand Springs Church in Athens and First Baptist Church Waskom, were among the plaintiffs in the ...

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

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

The 1954 Johnson Amendment (the law barring all nonprofit organizations like churches from engaging in partisan politics) has ...

The IRS said in a court filing that churches whose pastors endorse political candidates from the pulpit shouldn't lose their ...

The agency's agreement in a court filing formally reverses a decades-old provision of the tax code, but the motion would need ...

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Since 1954, the IRS has banned nonprofits — including congregations — from participating in political campaigns. The agency ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed the Internal Revenue Service's decision that houses of worship could ...

The change in IRS code came after a lawsuit tried to challenge the Johnson Amendment, a longstanding principle of separation ...