Native American leaders in California rallied Wednesday outside the State House to urge passage of a bill that would replace a recently toppled statue of 18 th century Spanish colonizer Junipero Serra ...

Los Angeles is scrubbing the name of Junipero Serra, a Roman Catholic saint and missionary, from a downtown Los Angeles park, more than a year after activists vandalized statues of the 19th century ...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently announced that the name of Saint Junípero Serra, an 18th century Catholic priest who established the first missions in California, will be removed from a park ...

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LOS ANGELES — While Catholic leaders have made strong defenses of St. Junipero Serra after a wave of vandalism and crime targeted Catholic statues and churches last year, political leaders in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A giant statue of Saint Junipero Serra towered over I-280 in Hillsborough for five decades. Without any big announcements, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The giant statue of Father Junipero Serra above Interstate 280 freeway in San Mateo County has been removed. (Michael Macor/The ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP/CBS13) — More than a year after protesters toppled a statue of Spanish missionary Junipero Serra on the grounds of the California Capitol, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law on ...

Watch the inaugural episode of ‘In Search of America’s Catholic Founders’ this weekend. Above is a look at Bernadette Carstensen’s painting from ‘In Search of America’s Catholic Founders.’ (photo: ...

From reparations to tax revolts, the Golden State tries out new ideas all the time. What roads will its latest experiments send us down? By Laila Lalami The fire broke out one day after $200,000 in ...