By JOHN FORTMEYER Christian News Northwest Subscribe It will take a little more time to organize a mass display of the Cross of Christ in the Rose City. A report in Christian News Northwest’s December issue outlined how the Jesus Experiment Cross Walk, an event featuring 3,000 people carrying 1,000 crosses […]

A Gresham Wedding Cake business is refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. The refusal has landed the owner in a lawsuit involving the Oregon Department of Justice. The story has gone national. KPTV – FOX 12

By Portland Archdiocese Pope appoints eleventh Archbishop of Portland in Oregon Pope Benedict XVI has appointed the Most Reverend Alexander K. Sample of the Diocese of Marquette, MI to be the eleventh Archbishop of Portland in Oregon. The announcement was made by the Vatican this morning. He will succeed Archbishop […]

UP receives Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) grant, to launch innovative “Green Dot” violence prevention initiative By University of Portland University of Portland is set to launch the “Green Dot” violence prevention initiative in 2013 after receiving a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Violence Against […]

Timothy Dolan, New York Archbishop This is Catholic Schools Week, when dioceses across the country celebrate the great gifts that are our Catholic schools. It has been a somewhat somber Catholic Schools Week for me, since in the Archdiocese of New York we recently announced that 24 of our schools […]

Nearly a third of Americans believe God has an active role int he Super Bowl according to the Public Religion Research Institute. See chart below.

By Evergreen Presbyterian, Beaverton Beaverton Religion Forum Discusses Natural Theology – Sunday, February 3, 6:00 pm Can humans look at the evidence of the world (natural facts) and deduce the existence and nature of God from it? Join us on Sunday evening as we discuss natural theology based on the […]

What people are talking about…. Here is what the White House said on Obama’s Immigration plan this week: Keep Families Together. The proposal seeks to eliminate existing backlogs in the family-sponsored immigration system by recapturing unused visas and temporarily increasing annual visa numbers. The proposal also raises existing annual country […]

Awarding winning UP professors to talk about theological and scientific views of global climate change; set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7 By University of Portland University of Portland professors Russell Butkus, theology, and Steven Kolmes, environmental science, will present “47 Years Later: Gaudium et Spes and Global Climate Change—the […]

Barran Liebman Oregon Law Firm New College & University Child Abuse Reporting Law Takes Effect January 1  Oregon is one of many states that acted in the wake of the Penn State child abuse tragedy to pass a new child abuse reporting law applicable to all employees of colleges and […]