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Reconstructed abbey takes shape in Vina

July 29, 2012, 12:00 am
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Once a heap of abandoned rubble, the limestone blocks from a dismantled Spanish monastery now form walls and soaring ceiling arches in the reconstructed medieval chapter house nearing completion at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina.

Master stonemason Frank Helmholz, who is directing the restoration of the Abbey of New Clairvaux, savors the beauty of the cross-rib vaulted ceiling in the reconstructed medieval chapter house in Vina, near Chico, earlier this month.
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Sacramento rally shows support for victims of Sikh temple shooting

August 8, 2012, 10:59 am
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More than a dozen people stood outside the Hyatt hotel in downtown Sacramento on Tuesday to show support for victims of the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting.

Harbhajan Singh, the victim of a hate crime assault here in 2010, wipes away tears as he discusses Sunday's Wisconsin attack.

Kazman Zaidi, foreground, president of a Sacramento taxi cab association, talks to the media Tuesday as he addresses intolerance against adherents of the Sikh religion.
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Muslim American's rap delivers love to Sikhs in time of pain

August 13, 2012, 6:21 am
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Zaki Syed, a clean-cut Muslim American rapper in glasses and blue jeans, has become one of the loudest voices for tolerance and understanding in the wake of the Wisconsin Sikh massacre.

Zaki Syed raps Sunday during a service at the Spiritual Life Center at Sacramento City College. Syed, a Muslim, put words and rhythm to his feelings involving Sikhs, six of whom were killed Aug. 5 in Wisconsin by a white supremacist.

Dr. Gurtej Singh Cheema listens to Syed on Sunday at the Spiritual Life Center. He and Sikh youths spoke during the event.

Dr. Gurtej Singh Cheema speaks to the crowd as the Rev. Michael Moran listens during Sunday's multi- religion event at the Spiritual Life Center at Sacramento City College.
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Elk Grove police ask: Were Sikh slayings in Wisconsin tied to 2 local killings?

August 14, 2012, 12:00 am
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Authorities are investigating whether the massacre at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee could be linked to last year's unsolved murders of two elderly Sikh men in Elk Grove.

Surinder Singh was fatally wounded while taking a walk.

Gurmej Atwal, like his slain friend, was a native of Punjab, India.
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Oak Park church placed in historic register

September 6, 2012, 12:21 am
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The historical significance of Shiloh Baptist Church, with its slanted roof and stained glass, has been made official.

The Rev. Anthony Sadler, the pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Oak Park, says he and his congregation are excited by the Sacramento City Council's vote to place the church in the city's Register of Historic and Cultural Resources. The congregation, founded in 1856, relocated twice before completing construction of the church on Ninth Avenue in 1963.

"We have a long traditional heritage. Generations attend this church together, " says Pastor Sadler, who started attending the church as a 2-year-old and whose parents, children and grandchildren all attend it.

The Rev. Anthony Sadler said the Shiloh Baptist Church on Oak Park's Ninth Avenue took five years to complete after running into financial problems. The Rev. Willie P. Cooke, then the pastor, led the effort to raise funds to finish construction in 1963, Sadler said.

Baptisms are held once a month in the baptismal pool overlooking the church's main sanctuary. The church is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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Lia Lee, subject of 'The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,' dies

September 8, 2012, 9:29 am
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Foua Yang crumpled in tears on the staircase in her south Sacramento home, just feet from the empty hospital bed where her daughter Lia Lee lived most of her life.

Foua Yang weeps as she describes her daughter Lia Lee, who died Aug. 31 at age 30 after a lifelong struggle with multiple disabilities.

Lee family Lia Lee's family gathered for her 30th birthday in July, just as she was at the center of every family get-together and ceremony.
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Gov. Jerry Brown signs bills against religious discrimination

September 9, 2012, 12:01 pm
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Blue, green, saffron, red, pink and black turbans crowded around Gov. Jerry Brown on the north steps of the Capitol on Saturday when he signed two bills designed to battle anti-Sikh discrimination.

Bhagwant Kalotia speaks with visitors about Sikh culture Saturday during the Elk Grove festival. Two Sikh elders were slain in the city in 2011.
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Muslim leaders call for support of U.S.

September 27, 2012, 5:30 am
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To stop the wave of anti-American violence breaking over the Islamic world, Sacramento Muslim leaders Friday called on all 6 million American Muslims to use social media to tell all the world what's good about the United States.

Sudanese protesters chant slogans in Khartoum, Sudan, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Germany's Foreign Minister says the country's embassy in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum has been stormed by protesters and set partially on fire. Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters that the demonstrators are apparently protesting against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.
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Rival Bible study groups compete to minister to state lawmakers

September 29, 2012, 12:00 am
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God works in mysterious ways, it's said, but his path to state lawmakers in Sacramento has taken a particularly odd route – through a North Carolina courtroom.

Until 2009, Ralph Drollinger, above, and his Capitol Ministries conducted Bible studies at the California Capitol. Capitol Commission, a rival group formed after a split, now conducted the studies.
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Historic St. John's Lutheran celebrates 100 years of outreach and invites community to sanctuary

October 5, 2012, 12:00 am
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For a century, St. John's Lutheran Church at 17th and L Streets has stood as one of the city's architectural jewels, and as home to a congregation that has ministered to the spiritual and physical needs of residents in Sacramento's midtown and beyond.

Pastor Frank Espegren meditates as he prepares for a service at St. John's Lutheran Church on Wednesday. Espegren entered the ministry after working 13 years as a lawyer and will be installed as senior pastor this weekend. "I liked being a lawyer, but I love being a pastor," Espegren said.

The Rev. Frank Espegren dresses in his vestments as he prepares for the noontime service Wednesday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Sacramento. He'll become senior pastor on Saturday.
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Q&A: Rashid Ahmad, a leader of American Muslim community

October 8, 2012, 4:48 pm
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Following the Sept. 11 killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Rashid Ahmad and other Muslim Americans have been asked by their non-Muslim friends why this happened.

Rashid Ahmad
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Oregon priest, a friend of Sacramento-area priest accused of molestation, faces similar charges

October 10, 2012, 9:43 am
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In the changing Catholic church, Rev. Uriel Ojeda and the Rev. Angel Perez were rising stars. Until it all fell apart.

The Rev. Uriel Ojeda, left, serves Communion for the first time beside the Rev. Angel Perez, his friend, in 2007. Both face molestation charges.

The Rev. Uriel Ojeda, right, declines to answer questions after his release from jail in Sacramento last January. He has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of felony child abuse.
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Mormon church a widely diverse entity in Sacramento region

October 22, 2012, 8:05 am
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Sacramento has long been considered one of the most integrated cities in America, and Sacramento's Mormon stake, or network of 13 parishes, reflects that.

Tongans, Samoans, Maori and other Pacific Islanders fill the Mormon Church south of Florin Road to sing and pray at the first of two services on Sunday.

Sacramento's Mormon stake President John Cassinat, left, and Bishop Aaron Cocker of the Tongan congregation. Cassinat says, “People are finally asking us who we are, more than ever before.”
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Road long, vista good to Indian's sainthood

October 22, 2012, 7:06 am
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Tens of thousands of pilgrims, including Native Americans in tribal regalia, Hawaiians with leis and Bavarians in lederhosen, packed St. Peter's Square on Sunday as Pope Benedict XVI canonized seven saints, one a Mohawk who has long been an icon for Indians throughout the United States and Canada.

A nun on Sunday attends the canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, for seven new saints including the first Native American saint, Kateri Tekakwitha, who lived in what is today upstate New York and Canada in the 1600s. Pope Benedict XVI called her "protectress of Canada."
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Convent tends to aging nuns

October 27, 2012, 12:00 am
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Construction on the real retirement community – Mercy Auburn Senior Community, a complex of 60 affordable senior apartments for the public – began a few weeks ago just down the hill from the cluster of Spanish colonial buildings making up the Sisters of Mercy convent and retreat center in Auburn.

Sister Eileen O'Connor, 76, who still remembers crowded conditions when she entered the Sisters of Mercy at age 18, has come back to the Auburn convent.

Sister Margaret Walsh, 83, serves coffee at the Sisters of Mercy convent in Auburn. Walsh returned to Auburn from Redding in 2000, but continues to do volunteer work.
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Capital mosque receives FBI leadership award

November 16, 2012, 12:00 am
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A Sacramento mosque has won FBI Director Robert Mueller's community leadership award for its efforts to prevent violence and educate the public.
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Reunited after 53 years, old friends are mutual support system

November 26, 2012, 5:27 am
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Josa Cottle and Maxine Collins are dear friends, the generational divide between them smoothed out by the fact that both now are considered members of the senior age group. But they are only recently reunited.

Josa Cottle and Maxine Collins reminisce as they sit on the couch in Collins' apartment in downtown Sacramento. Cottle lives in the same building and now cooks and helps care for her former church pastor. Above them are frames full of pictures from Collins' life.

This photo of the Buds of Promise Choir includes choir director and pastor Maxine Collins, back row right, and, directly in front of her, Josa Cottle, then known as Pat Cole.

Josa Cottle, 65, left, and Maxine Collins, 90, were reunited in the elevator of their apartments.
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Sacramento's Canna Care dispensary a family business with Christian outlook

December 5, 2012, 6:31 am
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Bryan Davies, an evangelical Christian with a long, drifting beard, is the CEO of a family business that doles out marijuana and spirituality in fragrant, faithful harmony.

Bryan and Lanette Davies, right, join hands to lead a prayer each day at 6 p.m. for their staff and patients at the Canna Care marijuana dispensary.

The lobby of the Canna Care medical marijuana dispensary – next door to a church in North Sacramento – displays the philosophy of owners Bryan and Lanette Davies.
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Fete for local patron saint

December 13, 2012, 12:00 am
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Hundreds of people filled the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church to overflowing for the ceremonies honoring the mother of Jesus, Mary, who is believed to have appeared in December 1531 to a peasant on a hill near Mexico City.

Marty Natividad

Marty Natividad, above, and Reyna Delgado, below, both of Sacramento, perform with six local Aztec dance groups that danced at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Sacramento on Wednesday. Hundreds of people filled the church to overflowing for the ceremonies honoring the mother of Jesus, Mary, who is believed to have appeared in December 1531 to a peasant on a hill near Mexico City. The vision is venerated as Our Lady of Guadalupe – one of two patron saints of the Diocese of Sacramento; the other is St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland – and her feast day is celebrated Dec. 12. This appearance of Mary is the only one on the North American continent officially recognized by the Catholic Church.
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Davis synagogue completes solemn process for new Torah scroll

December 17, 2012, 10:51 am
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A synagogue in Davis kept one foot in the past while stepping into the future Sunday, with the final five Hebrew letters of its new Torah inked in using a feather quill.

Congregation Bet Haverim members display their new Torah fully during services in Davis on Sunday marking the congregation's 50th anniversary.

Ernie Biberstein, from left, Gene Renkin and Libby Renkin help Rabbi Greg Wolfe roll the new Torah after its display Sunday at Congregation Bet Haverim.

Jen Taylor-Friedman, right, nears finishing the Torah with Rabbi Greg Wolfe. She guided Bet Haverim members in the project.
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