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Reconstructed abbey takes shape in Vina
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...
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Sacramento rally shows support for victims of Sikh temple shooting
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...
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Muslim American's rap delivers love to Sikhs in time of pain
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...
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Elk Grove police ask: Were Sikh slayings in Wisconsin tied to 2 local killings?
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...
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Oak Park church placed in historic register
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...
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Lia Lee, subject of 'The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,' dies
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...
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Gov. Jerry Brown signs bills against religious discrimination
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....
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Muslim leaders call for support of U.S.
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...
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Rival Bible study groups compete to minister to state lawmakers
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...
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Historic St. John's Lutheran celebrates 100 years of outreach and invites...
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...
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Q&A: Rashid Ahmad, a leader of American Muslim community
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...
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Oregon priest, a friend of Sacramento-area priest accused of molestation,...
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....
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Mormon church a widely diverse entity in Sacramento region
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...
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Road long, vista good to Indian's sainthood
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...
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Convent tends to aging nuns
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...
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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
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...
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Sacramento's Canna Care dispensary a family business with Christian outlook
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,...
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Fete for local patron saint
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...
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Davis synagogue completes solemn process for new Torah scroll
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...
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