California

The California Department of Education will no longer be teaching students two religious chants to Aztec gods from its ethnic studies curriculum, following a lawsuit filed on behalf of parents.

A California church is seeking to appeal the state's decision to close its preschool last month for violating its COVID-19 mask mandate for employees and students.

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 appropriate steps to restore federal funding for low-income and disadvantaged students who attend Catholic schools.

A California church is facing about $2.8 million in fines for holding church services in 2020 during mandated COVID-19 lockdowns.

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 have their first dose.

The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear a major free speech case involving a law that criminalizes “misgendering” individuals by not using their preferred pronouns.

Compton, California residents are asking for an end to violence after a pastor was shot and killed outside his church at the end of October.

A group of parents is challenging a California ethnic studies curriculum that asks students to chant and pray to Aztec gods.

California has banned state-funded travel to Ohio because of a law that allows healthcare professions, insurance companies or policyholders to deny certain types of care due to religious beliefs.

Harvest Christian Fellowship is aiming to pack Angel Stadium for this year's SoCal Harvest evangelistic event.