A secular group invited to lead the invocation at Thursday's Escambia County commission meeting plans to include thoughts from The Satanic Temple West Florida. The Humanists of West Florida will lead ...

Varanasi: With the installation of idols of goddess Durga and rituals of their praan pratishtha (invocation) on the auspicious occasion of Saptami (seventh day of Navratri), the footfall of devotees ...

A Scottsdale employee acknowledged she received more than 15,000 emails from a church protesting the decision to let the Satanic Temple give an invocation in 2016. The city eventually walked back its ...

On this day, devotees place books, musical instruments, and learning tools before the idol or image of Goddess Saraswati. The invocation involves chanting Vedic mantras, offering flowers, fruits, and ...