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 ...

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 ...

The calloused hands of the artist glide first over the pine ceremonial bowl, then the fishing canoes, in the Second Samoan Church yard. Sculptor Sven Ortquist pointed to the boys and girls chiseling ...

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 ...

Two Samoan churches which allegedly invested in a banned cryptocurrency are being investigated for money laundering, the country's central bank says. The probe follows revelations by the Central Bank ...

Samoan Mormons in Australia have lodged action in the Federal Appeals Court claiming the church is preventing them from worshipping in the local language. The lawyer representing them says Brisbane's ...

The Catholic Church in Samoa has hit out at a plan to give away free condoms to university students. Samoan health authorities devised the scheme to combat rising levels of unplanned pregnancies and ...