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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The IRS said it no longer will enforce the Johnson Amendment that prevents churches and other nonprofits from endorsing ...

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