The IRS on Monday declared churches may now endorse political candidates from the pulpit, making explicit an unspoken policy in effect for decades under both Republican and Democratic administrations.

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

In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of ...

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Dark money may be heading to a church near you because the Trump administration has said it will no longer enforce the ...

An IRS clarification on churches endorsing political candidates to their congregations draws praise, concern from local ...

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

Houses of worship can now back political candidates without possibility losing their standing as tax-exempt nonprofits. That is what the ...

Passersby in the Arco neighborhood may have noticed an unassuming little church at the corner of Ellis and L streets. That’s ...

Preston Moon, son of the late Unification Church founder Rev. Sun Myung Moon, convinced the District of Columbia’s highest ...