The Arcadia Planning Commission has given Reverend John Maynard of the Wesleyan Holiness Community Chapel Church one year to bring his church property up to city safety standards.
The memory of Monsignor Gerald M. O'Keefe, the founding pastor of Holy Angeles Parish in Arcadia, was honored recently at a rededication ceremony. The church history is profiled.
Rev. Norman Priebe of the Holy Angels Parish and Rev. Roland Zimmerman of the Annunciation Parish have received the honorary monsignor title by Pope John Paul II.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has announced the completion of its newest chapel in Arcadia, located at Foothill Blvd. and Baldwin Ave. The structure is described in detail.
Break-ins and vandlisms took place at Holy Angels Church and at Church of the Good Shepherd. Arcadia police are investigating them as possible religious-based hate crimes.
A food distribution center sponsored by the Presbytery of San Gabriel should open its doors in Arcadia on September 15, the first step in providing more complete care for the homeless and hungry in the mid-San Gabriel Valley. The temporary distribution point will be at Village Presbyterian Church of Arcadia, 2733, 10th St.
It has been a year-long struggle for the Serbian Orthodox Church of Christ the Savior to overcome the lingering effects of a 1996 New Year's Eve arson that all but destroyed their social hall.
Joyce Miller, 86, of Arcadia is shown in photo at Holliston United Methodist Church, the century old church at 1305 E. Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, on Easter Sunday with new Korean congregation members.
American Lutheran Church, then at 1424 S. Baldwin, which was later home of Serbian Orthodox Church. Building was dedicated Nov. 12, 1939, enlarged in 1945 and sold in 1963 to Serbian Orthodox, when Lutheran congregation's new church was built on Duarte Road.
