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Four Sacramento interfaith leaders will be honored tonight at the Interfaith Council of Greater Sacramento's "Power of One" awards dinner.

A dozen California bishops Wednesday called for passage of immigration legislation to unite families by providing "a generous path to citizenship" but less focus on punishing those who arrived illegally.

Sacramento's Slavic and Muslim American communities – representing more than 100,000 people in the region – have come together to condemn the horrific Boston Marathon bombings and the alleged perpetrator, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen immigrant from Russia.

Imam Mohamed Abdul-Azeez of SALAM Islamic Center in Sacramento won the FBI director's community leadership award in 2009 for his work preventing violence and educating the public. Five months ago, the FBI recognized SALAM again.

The night that gunfire rang through an apartment complex on 47th Street in south Sacramento County, a Bible study group assembled at a church next door.

Sacramento Law Enforcement Chaplain Frank Russell has been ministering to survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings.

More than 200 Presbyterian congregations nationwide - including nine in Sacramento - have been torn asunder over the Presbyterian Church USA's new rules and the ordination of its first gay minister, who is a former Sacramento pastor. The rift has result in lawsuits, sold churches, broken friendships and scattered congregations.

Sharing lunch is rarely historic, except perhaps when the two people dining are a living pope and his predecessor.