Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, founded on July 16, 1769, has been celebrating its "jubilee year" throughout 2019. In January, as the landmark turned 250 years old, the public was invited to ...

The West Coast’s Plymouth Rock, Mission San Diego de Alcalá on Thursday will launch a year of events marking its 250th anniversary. “The mission really is the beginning of what became the ...

A plump green wreath sat on one side of the altar at Mission San Diego de Alcalá, a single flame rising from one of the candles buried within its branches. Advent had begun, and after the mission ...

Firefighters are battling a brush fire in the hillside terrain of Pala, prompting evacuations in northern San Diego County, ...

246 years after founding the Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala, Catholics are celebrating Juniperro Serra as Catholicism’s newest saint. “We are very excited that [the Pope] did choose to ...

In San Diego County, home of two of the historic missions, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions, and Old Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, the largest one ...

This hike goes through scenic Mission Gorge and leads to the Old Mission Dam that impounded the San Diego River to provide water for the Spanish Mission San Diego de Alcalá. The dam is a ...

Evacuation warnings were ordered for a portion of Riverside County as a brush fire burning in northern San Diego County began ...

Nuns pray in front of a memorial to Pope Francis at Mission San Diego de Alcalá. (Photo courtesy Mission San Diego de Alcalá via Facebook) Catholics throughout the San Diego area joined the ...

with masses and prayer services at St. Joseph’s Cathedral and historic Mission San Diego de Alcalá. The faithful will have ashes applied to their foreheads in the sign of the cross as the ...