The Ecce Homo fresco painting of Christ in the Spanish town of Madrid was showing signs of serious deterioration from its 1930’s painting. An restoration artists was commissioned to fix the art, but ended up making it horrifically worse. The world’s worst restoration job is now a fame unto itself. […]

By Catholic League for Religious and civil rights Deal Hudson, president of the Pennsylvania Catholics Network, is cited today in a U.S. News blog story on the anti-religious antics of Catholics for Obama. Bill Donohue addresses this issue: Should Christians vote for a Jewish Democratic candidate for president? Should they […]

 Author: Forgiving the church after sex abuse As a young child, Bill Christman experienced the ultimate betrayal. Sexually abused by a Catholic priest, Bill’s life was set down a path of fear, rage, violence, drug abuse and alcoholism to mask the pain. For Bill, the trauma of his priest’s perverse […]

By Sheila Allen NW Baptist Convention With more than two million spectators swirling around her, Angie Quantrell joined the global spectacle in London, England, known as 2012 Olympic Games. But she was more interested in the spectators than the sporting events taking place. Quantrell, a kindergarten teacher, joined a team […]

Part 1 of a three-part series By Oregon family Council Early in his administration, President Obama, together with the Pelosi congress, chose to cut all federal funding for abstinence-only sex education. While this raised some outcry, many parents remained calm, knowing that their schools would still be using curricula known […]

Oregon Faith News Note, In a blow to low income families struggling in a down economy is the latest news that Oregon ranks third as the most expensive day care. Studies show that such families spend more money on child care than on rent! Consider that high cost news when […]

By Oregon Faith News Note, A total of 35 churches in Oregon are participating in the local effort calling people to seven days of prayer and fasting for Portland, Oregon and for the nation. Few churches in Oregon as big the ones involved in this project. Pastors from Oregon’s largest […]

By Catholic League for Religious & Civil Rights The evidence that Jesus had a wife can be ascertained by using a magnifying glass to read a 3.8 x 7.6 centimeter inscription made on a scrap of papyrus. We know nothing about when the scrap was discovered. We know nothing about […]

Lord of the Rings Actor to Play Villain in Upcoming Christian Movie By Beyond the Mask Film John Rhys-Davies of Lord the Rings fame has officially accepted a lead role in Beyond the Mask, a period action-adventure currently filming in the Detroit area. Beloved by American and British audiences alike, […]

New Wineskins, A program of Multnomah Biblical Seminary. On Monday, September 3rd at 7:30 PM, Powell’s City of Books (1005 W. Burnside in Portland) hosted an interfaith dialogue/exchange between evangelical theologian, Paul Louis Metzger (Ph.D., King’s College London), and Zen Buddhist priest, Kyogen Carlson (ordained Shasta Abbey; certified teacher, Dharma […]