Catholic Charities to visit nightclubs; talk about consent In honor of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, staff will remind bar-goers of their rights By Oregon Catholic Charities In recognition of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Catholic Charities Project UNICA will visit area nightclubs to host “Nights of Consent” April 19 […]

Pope Benedict Explores Environmental Issues from Diverse, Sometimes Surprising, Aspects A new book published by Our Sunday Visitor, The Environment by Pope Benedict XVI is an unprecedented collection of excerpts from what the Holy Father has had to say regarding the environment- a treasure trove of insights and inspiration surrounding […]

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Is Vanderbilt’s Anti-Discrimination Policy Actually Anti-Religion, Anti-Free Speech? Institute for Religion and Democracy Washington, DC—A controversial policy forcing campus groups to permit any student to qualify for leadership has caused Vanderbilt University’s Catholic ministry to declare it must leave the campus to remain faithful to its principles. The university’s newly-enforced […]

A Muslim American, Yonas Fikre, has stated that he was taken into custody and tortured. He was interrogated about his activities with an Oregon mosque. He was held under custody for over 100 days. He was arrested in the United Arab Emirates while trying to seek asylum in Sweden. Follow […]

Yom HaShoah- The Day of Remembrance –— “Unto Every Person There Is A Name” – A Reading of Names in Remembrance of Victims of the Nazi Holocaust By Michelle Bombet Minch , Every year hundreds of Jewish communities around the world perpetuate the memory of the victims of the Holocaust […]

University of Portland’s School of Nursing participates in poverty simulation University of Portland Independently Governed Catholic University Nursing students from the University of Portland recently gathered to discover the harsh reality of poverty. Through an intensive one-day program, 146 students participated in a poverty simulation that was designed to the […]

  By India Partners, Eugene based global ministry India Partners reveals the plight of the “untouchables” through music, film and artistic expression at its annual spring benefit banquet The Dalit, or “untouchable,” caste in India makes up an invisible majority of the country’s 1.3 billion people. India Partners’ annual spring […]

News reports of famous inspirational painter Thomas Kinkade’s unexpected death have taken an even more somber note since details emerged that alcoholism was involved as well as other parts of his private life struggles being made public. His work lives on, even in the northwest where two Kinkade-only galleries are […]

By Vera McEwan, Vera’s story provided by Forward Edge International, NW based ministry Testimony from a Forward Edge Team Member who was recently in Haiti: I love Joe Joe’s ice cream from Trader Joe’s. I was looking forward to this creamy treat when I returned home from Haiti. Having been […]