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

The top House Republican argued the phrase “separation of church and state” was a personal adage from Thomas Jefferson meant ...

The Internal Revenue Service is proposing to give churches a greater role in politics, allowing them to endorse or speak ...

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

The Rev. L.K. Floyd believes church leaders should have the liberty to speak to their congregations and support certain ...

In a break with decades of tradition, the Internal Revenue Service says it will allow houses of worship to endorse candidates ...

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

Republicans have run the table with religious voters. This Religious Left leader says Democrats can now fight for faith ...

Churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates without risking the loss of their tax-exempt status, the Internal Revenue Service said in a legal document the tax-collection ...

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

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

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