Religion

Weekends in Richmond: Laotians celebrate the New Year

On Sunday, hundreds of people turned out at Wat Lao Rattanaram, Richmond’s Laotian temple, to celebrate the New Year.

Councilmen host breakfast for local ministers

What do you get when you put 50 church ministers and two city councilmen in a room together for three hours? A few sermons, frequent...

Richmond family tries homeschooling for a year

We want our kids to know how to buy a bus ticket. We try to hold loosely without being foolish. I think that adds to...

Season’s feast coming to New Gethsemane Church

A full traditional Thanksgiving meal including turkey, ham, yams and mashed potatoes will be provided for all who show. The feast will be from 11...

Richmond church celebrates history of service

For a church that has been at the forefront of community services for 45 years, Sunday’s anniversary at Independent Community Church was just another reason...

Surrender ROW comes to Richmond

In life, people makes choices, both good and bad, but what is often ignored is how these choices affect family, friends and others in the...

Saint Cornelius School gets new multimedia center

The children of Saint Cornelius Catholic School have started the year with 25 new Apple computers in their multimedia center thanks to a $25,000 grant...

College-bound singer leaves her hometown

For the past three years, eighteen-year-old Vanessa Bejarano has sung in a choir that performs during ten o’clock mass at Saint Cornelius Parish. The group,...

North Richmond church to give away 1,000 bags of groceries

On any given Friday, Victoria Williams serves up to 100 people at the McGlothen Temple Church of God in Christ. They leave with full bellies and...

Celebrating Mother Payne: North Richmond church remembers a matriarch

Graddye Mae Payne, a longtime matriarch of North Richmond Missionary Baptist Church, went by many names in her 97 years: Mrs. Payne, Dr. G.M. Payne...

Richmond church members get A Taste of Health

A group of women from local churches got together Saturday to cook a meal and mark the end of 12 weeks of classes called A...

Richmond Baptist Church shares Bible study in Belize

“Vacation Bible School” takes on new meaning when classes are held near Mayan temples and jaguar jungles. But for eight Richmond Baptist Church members, that’s...

A workshop teaches advocates to lobby for an end to the death penalty

Activists, led by Barbara Becnel, gathered in Richmond to learn how to successfully advocate for the abolition of capital punishment. California leads the nation in...