Alejandra Molina

• Study: Clergy Feel Ill-Equipped to Help Black and Latino Congregants with Mental Health Tuesday, February 15, 2022
  According to a new study, clergy feel ill-equipped to help Black and Latino congregants struggling with their mental health.
• Ordinance Limiting Oregon Church Meal Services Violates Religious Freedom, Suit Says Wednesday, February 2, 2022
  An Oregon church is suing the coastal city of Brookings, arguing that an ordinance restricting the church’s meal program for the unhoused violates its right to religious freedom.
• Claremont School of Theology Ordered to Offer Land to Neighboring Universities Friday, January 28, 2022
  The Claremont School of Theology must offer to sell its property to the neighboring Claremont Colleges for a price below market value, a Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled earlier this month.
• Frank Barker, Founding Pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Is Dead at 89 Wednesday, December 29, 2021
  The Rev. Frank Barker, whose 4,000-member Briarwood Presbyterian Church grew from a Birmingham, Alabama, storefront before he helped found a conservative branch of Presbyterianism, has died. He was...
• LA Archdiocese Sues LAUSD, Alleging it Kept Federal Funds from Catholic Schools Tuesday, December 21, 2021
  The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is suing the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest in the United States, arguing that legal action is necessary to force the district to take the...
• Court Temporarily Blocks San Diego Schools’ Vaccine Mandate after Suit Filed by 16-Year-Old Tuesday, November 30, 2021
  On Sunday,  the Ninth District Court of Appeals temporarily blocked San Diego Unified School District’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate from taking effect, one day before students were required to...
• Hope 'Renewed in a Just God': Faith Leaders React to Guilty Verdicts in Ahmaud Arbery Murder Monday, November 29, 2021
  Religious groups and faith leaders across the country said the verdict in the Ahmaud Arbery case — that found all three white men charged in his death guilty of murder — is a sign of progress, even...
• Bishops Seek Answers in Vandalism of Churches and Catholic Symbols Tuesday, November 9, 2021
  Last year, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops decided to start documenting and tracking vandalism at Catholic sites across the country. Since the USCCB began tracking the events, they have...
• Texans Vote in Favor of Prohibiting Governments from Limiting Religious Services Thursday, November 4, 2021
  Texas voters on Tuesday (Nov. 2) overwhelmingly supported a measure barring governments from taking any kind of action that limits religious services, such as the public health orders that shut...
• Student Files Religious Discrimination Suit over San Diego Schools' Vaccine Mandate Wednesday, October 27, 2021
  A 16-year-old high school student is suing the San Diego Unified School District in federal court, claiming religious discrimination over vaccine mandates that require eligible students to be fully...
• Texans to Vote on Whether Governments Can Limit Religious Services Thursday, October 21, 2021
  In November, Texans will be voting on whether or not the government should be allowed to limit religious services as they did during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren Signals Retirement with Search for Successor Tuesday, June 8, 2021
  On Sunday, Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren signaled that, after 40 years in the pulpit, he will soon retire.
• Arrest Made in Suspected Antisemitic Attack in LA as Jewish Community Remains on Edge Tuesday, May 25, 2021
  Los Angeles police have arrested a man in connection with the suspected antisemitic attack outside a restaurant that left several Jewish diners injured.
• Los Angeles Police Investigating Brawl as Antisemitic Hate Crime Monday, May 24, 2021
  Los Angeles police are investigating an attack on diners outside a Westside restaurant as an antisemitic hate crime.
• Man Charged in San Gabriel Mission Blaze That Destroyed Rooftop of Historic Church Wednesday, May 5, 2021
  A man has been charged in connection with a fire last July that destroyed the rooftop of a church at the historic San Gabriel Mission church.
• Eric Talley, 'A Faithful and Heroic Officer' Killed in Boulder Shooting, Honored in Catholic Funeral Mass Wednesday, March 31, 2021
  On Monday, a traditional Latin Mass was held for Eric Talley, the Boulder, Colorado, police officer who was one of 10 people killed in a mass shooting last week at a King Soopers grocery store.
• In Southern California, Black Churches Are Using Their Land to Build Housing for the Homeless Wednesday, March 17, 2021
  A number of churches, particularly Black congregations, in Southern California are stepping up to build affordable housing on their church land amid the rising housing crisis across the region.
• Public Viewing Set for Frederick K.C. Price, Televangelist Who Built LA's Faithdome Wednesday, February 24, 2021
  The family of the prominent Los Angeles pastor Rev. Frederick K.C. Price will be holding a closed-casket viewing in March so that the public can say goodbye to the late pastor.