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Defense expert: Child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome is 'junk science'
Prosecutors offered it as powerful evidence of why children who make molestation allegations ought to be believed, but a defense expert Monday labeled child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome as "junk...
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Priest jailed on suspicion of molesting 14-year-old girl in Sacramento
A young Catholic priest lauded in Woodland for his involvement with the community will be arraigned in Sacramento Superior Court today on multiple counts of molesting a 14-year-old girl in Sacramento....
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Redding priest arraigned on molestation charges
As his supporters whimpered softly in the audience, a Catholic priest appeared before a Sacramento judge Friday and was formally charged with seven counts of child molestation. The Rev. Uriel Ojeda...
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Sacramento jury sent to decide if Baptist pastor molested 5 girls
It's a case likely to come down to questions of credibility and character. Tommy Daniels
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Backers of accused priest show support
An estimated 40 supporters crowded the hallway of a Sacramento courtroom and prayed the rosary Tuesday in support of a Catholic priest who is accused of molesting a girl under the age of 14. Backers of...
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Baptist pastor convicted of molesting 5 girls in his Citrus Heights home
The trial came down to the word of a Baptist preacher who castigated as liars the troubled little girls who called him a child molester. Tommy Gene Daniels' defense called a witness who said she saw...
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Should football's Tim Tebow tone down taking a knee for God?
Man of faith or religious zealot? Tim Tebow, the Denver Broncos quarterback who continues to defy his critics, has become the most polarizing, and talked about, figure in professional sports today....
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Christmas pageants add production values to spread cheer and message
The message may be the same, but the way it is delivered has certainly changed as large churches produce more elaborate Christmas productions every year. Sacramento-area churches are staging Christmas...
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Priest held on $5 million bail is no flight risk, his defense attorney says
An unspoken fear that the Rev. Uriel Ojeda will take off for Mexico if he gets out of jail is the big reason the priest, accused of child molestation, is stuck with a $5 million bail, his lawyer said...
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Young widower says family, friends, faith help him cope
On June 16, as the sun beat down on a Bahamas beach, honeymooners Victor and Crystal Rodriguez strapped on their harnesses and parasailed above the ocean. Moments later, the life they had planned...
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Bee readers tell their stories of angel encounters
The Bee has compiled angel stories from readers. Each has two things in common: Something inexplicable happens in a person's life, and once that event occurs, the world is left a better place, if only...
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Retiring pastor gives last Westminster Presbyterian sermon on Christmas Day
The pipe organ played, the congregation sang and, for the last time on Christmas morning, a retiring minister put on his black robe and blue stole. The Rev. Tom Oxtoby speaks Sunday in his final...
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Fremont Presbyterian split -- and land holdings -- challenged
Most Fremont Presbyterian church members thought the turmoil in their congregation would end after they voted 427-164 to leave the national denomination in October. The Rev. Donald Baird, senior pastor...
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Memories of a gay man's suicide loom over Fremont Presbyterian Church
On July 23, 1992, Thomas Paniccia, an Air Force sergeant, announced he was gay on national television. On the anniversary of that day 15 years later, Paniccia drove to an undeveloped cul-de-sac in...
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Sacramento pastors are raising their political voices
Pastors in the city of Sacramento are preaching politics. The spiritual leaders of mostly African American churches have emerged in recent weeks as a new special interest group in city politics. Bishop...
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Californians to Watch: Methodist minister takes on Internet gambling
The Rev. James Butler will fight for more than a dozen regulations to limit Internet gambling, including requiring gamblers to get the permission of their spouses. The Rev. James Butler will fight for...
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Supporters steadfast as priest faces bail-reduction hearing in Sacramento
A few minutes after noon every Monday through Friday, Sylvia Chavez pulls her red Nissan Sentra into her regular parking spot alongside the thick walls and cyclone fences of the Sacramento County Main...
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Sacramento prosecutor says priest confessed to molesting girl
A young priest accused of molesting a teenage girl stood, head bowed, inside a Sacramento courtroom jail cell Thursday as lawyers argued whether he was a threat to the community. The Rev. Uriel Ojeda,...
View ArticleChurches join together to improve health of 38,000 Natomas residents
Natomas is known for Power Balance Pavilion and floodplains. Now some church leaders are hoping the community north of downtown becomes associated with something else: physically fit residents.
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Supporters patiently await priest's release from Sacramento jail
Supporters of the Rev. Uriel Ojeda waited into the darkness Monday to see if the Catholic priest jailed on child molestation charges would be able to post bail. xxxxx xxxxx three lines please The crowd...
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