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

So why, citing religious freedom concerns, did the IRS advance an interpretation of the law that allows churches to do just ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Ohio churches are having mixed reactions to news that the Internal Revenue Service will relax enforcement of the ban on ...

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

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

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