Bishop Michael Pham is the first Vietnamese American to lead a diocese in the United States.
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About 400 people attended a rally Monday showing solidarity with Muslim women, many of whom said they've seen an upsurge in prejudice in recent months. -
The FBI is investigating after police in Southern California say two mosques in the city of Hawthorne were vandalized with paint and a fake grenade was left in the driveway of one of the properties. -
Politics at home and abroad have sharply divided the Jewish community in San Diego. KPBS sat in on a Hanukkah dinner with a group of friends seeking reconciliation. -
Hanif Mohebi, of the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Donald Trump's call for a shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S. is "divisive" and "outrageous." -
San Diego State University students rallied against Islamophobia Monday afternoon in response to an attack on a Muslim student last week that is being investigated as a hate crime. -
KPBS Midday EditionGovernors from several U.S. states balk at taking in Syrian refugees after attacks in Paris. -
KPBS Midday EditionA San Diego mental health counselor was instrumental in helping Boston Globe investigative reporters uncover the priest sex abuse scandal in 2002 and cover-up that followed. The investigation is depicted in the new film "Spotlight." -
Standing before a rapt Congress, Pope Francis issued a ringing call to action on behalf of immigrants, urging lawmakers to embrace "the stranger in our midst." -
In the first canonization on U.S. soil, Pope Francis has elevated to sainthood an 18th-century missionary who brought Catholicism to the American West Coast. -
Pope Francis canonizes Junípero Serra amid mixed feelings. Some San Diegans think the missionary deserves to be named a saint, while others think the canonization ignores abuses against Native Americans.
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