Peter Johansen will receive the first Lifetime Achievement Award at the 15th annual Christian Public Servants breakfast on Oct. 29.

Nicole C. Mullen speaks only one language — words of God's love that bring hope to people across racial, family and economic lines.

Healing Nations, a nonprofit Christian organization that works with children and teens on the west side of Modesto, traces its roots back to the bad floods of 1997.

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Nobody can say why the Virgin of Guadalupe would appear on a hunk of rock formed millions of years before the birth of Jesus.

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Phillip Benjamin Malik, a visionary who left his native Iraq in the early 1950s and helped hundreds of Assyrian Christians to find the American dream in Stanislaus County, died Thursday. The Modesto man was 94.

Crossroads Grace Community Church in Manteca will have a Sunday service next week. But it won't be inside the walls of the church.

WASHINGTON — The youth choir belted out "O Happy Day" as folks trickled in through the church doors. Few noticed the accountant sitting in the back pew, his eyes flickering over each latecomer.

Sister Regina Alonzo, one of the cloistered nuns at Sisters of the Cross, and Charles and the late Hedy Harding of Modesto's Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church are among the five "Bright Lights" award winners in the Stockton Diocese. They will be honored at the eighth annual Bishop's Awards dinner Oct. 17 in Stockton.

An independent Christian movie, "The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry," opens at Brenden Theatres on Friday, thanks to three businessmen — Andy Fletcher, a Modesto dentist, John Beech, a Turlock chiropractor, and Eric Kjeldgaard, an Oakdale real-estate developer for Opportunity Builders, which builds low-income projects.

Whether you call his songs "Christian rock" or "alternative worship music," David Crowder is certainly unique. All you have to do is look at his latest band photograph to know that.

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Max Lucado is the Hans Christian Andersen of American pastors, a masterful storyteller. He has sold 65 million books over the past 25 years and is the only author to have won three Christian Book of the Year awards — for "Just Like Jesus," "In the Grip of Grace" and "When God Whispers Your Name."