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‘Homeless’ pastor Rick Cole goes home to Capital Christian church
The Rev. Rick Cole returned to the 4,000-member Capital Christian Center stage Saturday after spending two weeks living as a homeless man on the streets of Sacramento and helping to raise more than...
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Living on the street, a pastor connects with Sacramento’s homeless,...
Megachurch pastor Rick Cole lives as a homeless person to draw attention to the issue and raise $100,000 for winter shelter. Rev. Rick Cole squeezes through a tight opening after a night's sleep in an...
View ArticleFormer Bradshaw Christian School aide convicted of molestation charge
An instructional aide at a Christian School in south Sacramento County has been found guilty in a child molestation case.
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Supervisors delay decision on homeless shelters
As local church leaders raise funds to house homeless people this winter, Sacramento County supervisors backed off from a proposal Tuesday that would have restricted shelters operated by religious...
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Sacramento’s Bethany Presbyterian celebrates 100 years of survival and...
Now, 100 years after founding, Bethany Presbyterian Church is counting its blessings and looking ahead. Steeple without bottom bell tower is lifted for placement on community hall at new site. The bell...
View ArticleCorrection: Mormon Women-Priesthood story
In a story Oct. 5 about Mormon women attending an all-male church meeting, The Associated Press erroneously reported the name of one attendee. She is Cally Stephens-Nielson, not Stephens Nielson.
View ArticleSacramento’s new Sunday Assembly chapter offers ‘church’...
Atheist church launches in Sacramento on Sunday.
View ArticleLocal Muslims condemn ISIS
At Friday’s Jumah – the main weekly Muslim service – Imam M.A. Azeez told his 1,000 congregants at the Salam Islamic Center in Sacramento that “everything that ISIS stands for is the antithesis of...
View ArticlePolice: Carbon monoxide caused missionary deaths
Police in Taiwan suspect carbon monoxide poisoning caused the deaths of two Mormon missionaries.
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Sacramento church seeks donations of food, medical supplies for...
An Ebola donation drive seeks medical supplies, non-perishable food and drinks, as well as cash to help West Africans and aid workers trying to stamp out the deadly virus. Men, right, working for a...
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Pastor pleads no contest in sex sting
A Carmichael pastor caught in a prostitution sting has pleaded no contest to misdemeanor soliciting for prostitution, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office. John Oselsky
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Bible-based recovery center seeks to cure addiction among Sacramento’s...
Behind a locked gate on E Street in rural North Highlands, about a dozen young men pray to God to deliver them from addiction – part of the God Will Provide treatment regimen. Michael Kumansky, 20, at...
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Congressman spreads gospel on Capitol Hill
Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo of Mississippi has found a way to inject new meaning into constituent service by obliging a request to distribute Bibles to his colleagues in Congress, all 534 of them....
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Sacramento Congo connection forms lasting roots
As Jamie, 6, and Jordan, 5, made their way down a church camp chow line recently, the choices were abundant – hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, taco salad, potato salad, garden salad, watermelon and cookies...
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Friends celebrate Sacramento’s longest serving Roman Catholic priest,...
He’s been toasted in pubs throughout Kilkenny County, Ireland, for his hurling prowess and called the “Irish Godfather,” “the spiritual father of south Sacramento,” a singer and a saint during his 66...
View ArticleStudent: Expelled from college after gay marriage
A woman said Monday that she was expelled from a private, Christian college in suburban Oklahoma City because she married her same-sex partner.
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Q&A: Sacramento pastor builds bridges across religions
For Ramadan, Pastor Rick J. Cole of Capital Christian Center one of the regions oldest and largest fundamentalist churches gave a sermon to about 500 Muslims and their friends at the Sunrise Event...
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Sacramento relatives of slain Palestinian teen say he didn’t deserve...
Muhammed Abu Khdeir, the Palestinian teen who was kidnapped and burned to death Wednesday in Jerusalem, was a sweet, peaceful boy, his relatives in Sacramento said Thursday. Aisha Abu Khdair, in the...
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Sacramento faith groups respond to Israeli teens' murder
Local faith groups are finding ways to participate in the international dialogue surrounding the high profile murder of three Israeli teenagers and subsequent Israeli military response in the Gaza...
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Davis priest pleads guilty to statutory rape of teen parishioner
Calling his behavior “a crime and a sin,” local Catholic Church officials will ask the Vatican to defrock a disgraced Davis priest after he pleaded guilty to statutory rape of a teenage parishioner....
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