Religion News

For $80, local faith groups can broadcast their message on TV for half an hour. Many Christian groups do. Now, because of the troubled economy, station officials are scrambling to fill air time and are reaching out to other religions.

A Catholic priest accused of child molestation again did not enter a plea Thursday at his Sacramento Superior Court arraignment.

It took two years and about $10 million, but the 12,000 local members of the Church of Scientology in Sacramento have a new house of worship.

Visitors are invited to see the new 57,000-square-foot Church of Scientology of Sacramento at Sixth and J streets.

J Street will close for 90 minutes this afternoon for the opening of a new Church of Scientology location downtown.

Mitt Romney's tax returns reveal that the Republican presidential candidate does something fewer Americans do these days: He tithes.

Faith leaders regularly use iPads to research their sermons and smartphones to text church members. Tonight, many will put aside their high-tech tools to honor a book that was created the old-fashioned way – by hand.

Over the next few months, thousands of church members will fan out across the Sacramento area to perform community volunteer projects, both large and small. The campaign kicked off Sunday night and will culminate in June at the largest spiritual revival in the area in more than two decades.

The sentencing of Rio Linda First Baptist Church pastor Tommy Gene Daniels was delayed Friday after his lawyer filed a motion for a new trial.

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.

Supporters of the Rev. Uriel Ojeda were rewarded for waiting in the darkness Monday as the Catholic priest posted bail and was released from the Sacramento County Main Jail.

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.

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.

Rev. Uriel Ojeda stands accused of charges that, if proved, could send him to prison and strip the young Catholic priest of his collar and vestments.

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.

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 Roseville several blocks from his home and waited to die.

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.

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 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 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 for a moment.

Victor Rodriguez is 23, a widower who faces bankruptcy, potential legal action against the parasailing company and more than $100,000 in medical bills. Every day, he grieves the loss of his wife and their life together.

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 Monday.

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 shows that often include large casts, theatrical lighting and music, and special guests.

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.