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By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to revisit the issue of church-state separation and decide whether a town council can...
By Jenny Deam, Los Angeles Times
TOPEKA, Kan. — The house was empty, just as Libby Phelps had planned. Slipping inside that afternoon four years ago, ...
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Can a public high school hold its graduation ceremony in a local church?
By Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Time
By the time the letter arrived, the grass on Benjamin Hawkes' grave had grown thick. Historians had chronicled how he transformed the Los...
By Tiffany Hsu
True Religion Apparel Inc., the Southern California purveyor of pricey designer denim, may have gotten too small for its britches.
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times
SAN DIEGO — Tim Lambesis has spent the last 13 years fronting As I Lay Dying, a San Diego-...
By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second day in a row, a bomb blast killed and maimed participants at a campaign rally being held by one...
By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times
KAMPALA, Uganda — He is a celebrity across eastern and central Africa, a gospel music star known to many as the "Dancing Priest."...
By Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times
A special task force of fire, police and federal agencies is investigating a church fire that erupted early Friday at a Leimert Park church.
By Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times
Pressed to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to settle clergy sex abuse lawsuits, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony turned to one group of...
By Victoria Kim, Ashley Powers and Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times
Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and a top advisor plotted to conceal child...
By Harriet Ryan and Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times
Church leaders who mishandled child sex abuse allegations will be named in a 30,000-page cache of internal Archdiocese of Los Angeles...
By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times
Bishop Kuang-hsun Ting, who was one of the most influential Christian figures in China as the longtime leader of the country's government-...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
By Matea Gold and Tom Hamburger, Washington Bureau
Silicon Valley, the politically liberal technology hub, is an unlikely incubator of conservative Christian activism.
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
David Martinez, pastor of Victory Outreach Church of the San Fernando Valley, whose...
By Dennis McLellan
James Kavanaugh, a former Catholic priest who came to fame in 1967 with his controversial bestseller calling for reform in the church and...
By Mike Anton
Father Ladislas K. Parker, a Catholic priest whose harrowing escape from communist Hungary in 1950 led him to Orange County and the founding...
By William Lobdell
Oral Roberts, a dirt-poor Oklahoma farm boy who popularized the idea of a "prosperity gospel" while becoming one of the world's most...
By John M. Glionna
The young couple are totally busted. They huddle at a beach-side park, near signs forbidding teens from sitting too close. He has his arm...