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

Thanks to the ACLJ’s advocacy, pastors can now speak freely from the pulpit about political candidates without fear of IRS ...

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

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

The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader. It banned all tax-exempt organizations like churches and charities from ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 IRS says pastors endorsing political candidates during services should not risk losing their tax-exempt status ...