SF News Churchgoer Stabbed Outside Saints Peter & Paul Church In North Beach On Sunday, following a reported altercation with a homeless individual who had entered the church, a parishioner was stabbed outside Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.
SF News Pandemic Rule-Flouting Church In San Jose Loses Latest Court Battle, Ordered to Pay $1.2M In Fines Calvary Chapel in San Jose continues to spend a lot of time and energy fighting Santa Clara County in court over pandemic-era public health rules that it openly defied. And a Superior Court judge has just ordered the evangelical church to pay $1.2 million in fines to the county.
SF News Mushroom- and Weed-Dispensing Church In Oakland Sues Over Police Raid, Confiscated Property A kooky church in Oakland that believes in the spiritual power of hallucinogens has now filed suit against the city and the Oakland Police Department over a raid two years ago in which police took cash, cannabis, and mushrooms.
SF News San Jose Church That Defied Pandemic Public Health Orders Wins Appeal Based on Supreme Court's Rightward Shift The evangelical Calvary Chapel in San Jose was ordered to pay over $200K in contempt-of-court fines over its defiance of county public health orders in 2020, but a state appeals court has just overturned that and ruled in favor of the church, because of Amy Coney Barrett.
SF News DOJ Civil Rights Official Says Newsom's Reopening Plan Discriminates Against Churches A Department of Justice official has written Newsom a strongly worded letter suggesting that the state's reopening timeline violates the civil rights of the faithful and represents "unequal treatment of faith communities" because of the imposed delay on reopening places of worship.
SF News Three SoCal Churches Are Suing Governor Newsom Over Stay-at-Home Orders Pastors at three churches in the Inland Empire — in Riverside and San Bernardino counties — who believe they should be allowed to keep their houses of worship open during the pandemic have filed a First Amendment lawsuit against state and county officials that they seem destined to lose.
SF News SFMTA 'Leans Toward' Formalizing Illegal Sunday Double-Parking For Churchgoers The SFMTA is set to decide on Tuesday whether or not to formalize the currently illegal practice of churchgoers every Sunday turning the Mission's Dolores Street into a parking lot. The Examiner reports
Arts & Entertainment Video: New Valencia Street Cathedral Gets Its Cross, Via Helicopter Missionites have likely noticed the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral of San Francisco taking shape over the last year at Valencia and 14th with is grand main dome, and it's novel enough that a
SF News 97-Year-Old West Oakland Church Goes Up In Flames Zion's First Church of God in Christ, which has stood on the same West Oakland corner in different forms for almost 100 years, was largely destroyed in a three-alarm fire Monday afternoon. The
SF News Car Crashes into Oakland Church After S.F. Gunplay, Epic Chase It was an eventful day in the Civic Center area last night. Around 8:30 p.m., shots were fired around Leavenworth and McAllister Streets. Police gave chase to a silver Mercedes containing
Arts & Entertainment That Big Empty Church In SoMa Will Become Office Space St. Joseph's Church, which has stood empty since suffering damage in the Loma Prieta quake a little over 22 years ago, is finally going to get put back to use as the market
SF News Gay-Friendly Castro Church Forced To Disinvite Gay-Friendly Clergy From Pre-Christmas Services The gay-friendly but nevertheless Catholic Most Holy Redeemer Church on Diamond Street in the Castro, which has a heavily gay and lesbian congregation, was recently asked by the city's Catholic archdiocese to rescind
