A Samoan Pentecostal congregation at legal odds with some of its sister churches in the South Bay and Long Beach has won the property rights to its two Carson parishes after a lengthy legal battle.

During a break from testimony in Compton court, members of Carson Bethel Church stood in a circle holding hands and praying for God’s forgiveness for their role in a distinctly un-Christian legal ...

Sunday Masses and bible studies at the historic Second Samoan Congregational Church, which was gutted by a fire over the weekend, may take place at an adjacent parking lot if the leaders of two ...

BARSTOW • After five years of sharing space with another church, Enitima Laulu and his congregation may soon have a brand new building of their own to worship in. Laulu, head pastor of the First ...

Two congregations at Long Beach’s historic Second Samoan Congressional Church, damaged by a weekend fire, are uncertain about the building’s structural safety or whether services will have to be ...

On Sunday morning, the pews of Anchorage's New Testament Church were full of jittery boys in ivory satin suits and girls in flower crowns and frilly dresses. Babies wore tuxedos. Mothers wore ...

Rocking an infant nephew in her arms, Mary Poloai stood outside the main entrance of the imposing Samoan Congregational Christian Church in Carson on Wednesday staring up at the sky and fighting back ...

Pull up to the Samoan Christian Fellowship in Des Moines on certain Saturdays and you’ll smell the aroma of grilled chicken and pork ribs rubbed with a “super secret” sauce and spun over an open flame ...

BARSTOW • They received a permit to build in the western part of town, but members of a Samoan church are at odds with the city over whose responsibility it is to pave the road the facility will sit ...