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 Monday, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...

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

Critics fear the Trump administration is opening the floodgates for houses of worship to turn into political fundraising ...

Churches thinking of taking advantage of a major IRS flip-flop on the legality of engaging in politics without fear of losing ...

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

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

IRS repeal of church political restrictions energizes GOP strategies but alienates the faithful who value spiritual over ...

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

Churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates without risking the loss of their tax-exempt status, ...

Still, only one church has ever lost its tax exemption over politics. In 1992, a church in New York took out ads opposing Bill Clinton, leading to the loss of its tax exemption.

Churches and other houses of worship registered as tax-exempt nonprofits can endorse political candidates to their ...