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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The majority of the Founders ... were determined to prevent the official establishment of any single national denomination or religion.

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