December 21, 2011, 12:05 AM
A West Oakland church and private school that sends children to solicit donations at BART stations has a history of financial and legal troubles, including two cases in which church leaders admitted they illegally received government assistance. The children, including one who said he was 7...
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September 24, 2010, 12:20 AM
The U.S. Justice Department this month marked a decade spent protecting the faithful from planning and zoning discrimination by filing a lawsuit against the California city of Walnut. Two-and-a-half years ago, the city of 30,000 east of Los Angeles denied the Chung Tai Zen Center a permit to...
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March 19, 2010, 12:02 AM
An analysis of user-generated content placed onto Google maps shows a lot of references to the Baptist faith in placemarks located on top of California. The map, produced by floatingsheep.org, parsed out religious references from Google placemarks to create maps of Christianity. The...
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