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

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

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

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

The Internal Revenue Service agreed in a court filing that churches can endorse political candidates without fear of losing ...

In a proposed legal settlement, the Internal Revenue Service has agreed that it will abandon enforcement of longstanding ...

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 ...

"Granting this carve-out to churches might seem narrow, but the exemption would lay the groundwork for future efforts to expand partisan activity across the nonprofit sector," Marie Ellis of the ...

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

The Black church has always been more than a place of worship—it’s been a hub for liberation and justice. From slavery to ...

That’s what the IRS now claims, in a reversal from Biden-era positions. Could this embolden critics of religious liberty?

As socially-engaged New York City faith leaders who for decades have preached “with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper ...