Catholics across San Diego honored and celebrated the late Pope Francis with special memorial masses Wednesday. Pope Francis made a lasting impact on people of all ages among the local faithful.
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KPBS Midday EditionThe number of hate crimes in California increased about 11 percent last year, the second consecutive double-digit increase, but the overall number still was a third lower total than a decade ago, the state's attorney general reported Monday. -
The Supreme Court is taking on a new clash between gay rights and religion in a case about a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in Colorado. -
In an attack that British Muslims say was aimed directly at them, a man plowed a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers outside a north London mosque early Monday, injuring 10 people. London police are investigating it as a terrorist incident. -
The Dalai Lama spoke Friday to a crowd of about 25,000 at the University of California, San Diego. -
Activists are organizing protests against a conference in San Diego this weekend promoting so-called gay conversion therapy. The practice has been widely condemned by mainstream science, and outlawed in California when practiced on minors. -
KPBS Midday EditionA group of Christian ministries is meeting beginning Friday in San Diego to talk about counseling people who are gay to become straight. Activists are planning to protest of the conference. -
The San Diego Planning Commission has recommended approval of a Christian-themed tourist resort and missionary training center in Mission Valley. The project has been downsized since last year, when opponents expressed fears of the project's traffic impacts. -
KPBS Midday EditionA legal group has filed a lawsuit on behalf of six parents that challenges the constitutionality of the district's plan to protect Muslim students from being bullied. -
KPBS Midday EditionMayte Gutierrez, 25, of San Diego talks about how she found Islam and the impact of President Trump’s policies on the Muslim and Latino communities. -
KPBS Midday EditionHistorian Joellyn Zollman said San Diego's early Jews were able to participate directly in the creation of their city, which wasn’t true in places like New York, Baltimore or Chicago.
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