Others countered with "Father Genocide." The statue’s removal came at a time ... “I asked him to pray for me,” he said. Tom Kisken covers health care and other news for the Ventura County ...

Temple father Gary Johnson has reached the $6000 fundraising goal to build a statue honoring his son, Chris Johnson, at Pepper Creek Trail. At just 19, Chris Johnson was killed in a motorcycle ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 1.8 million mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Thursday in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a centuries-old black statue of Jesus.