Family-Faith Film Review: The Tourist By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting The Tourist: A flirtatious encounter with an elegant, mysterious fellow passenger (Angelina Jolie) on a train to Venice leads a vacationing American math teacher (Johnny Depp) to be mistaken for a fugitive embezzler known to have altered his […]

By Oregon Faith Report News Note: George Bush in a radio interview with Focus on the Family talked boldly about the breakdown of the American family and the dangers it poses to the nation. The perils of the American family decline were put center stage in this insightful radio broadcast. […]

Oregon Attorney General Announces Oregon’s 20 Worst Charities And Landmark Legislation To Combat Irresponsible Non-Profits. By Oregon Attorney General, Oregon donors should avoid giving to charities that spend most of their funding on telemarketing and administration. Now that the gift-giving season is upon us, Attorney General John Kroger is releasing […]

Georgene Rice of KPDQ-FM interviews Dr. Daniel Lockwood from Multnomah University discusses the new Department of Education’s proposed rules for education institutions, which include 14 directives, including the ability to control curriculum, admissions and hiring standards. Georgene: As I mentioned today, Christianity Today ran an article last month indicating that […]

Family-Faith Film Review: The Fighter By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting The Fighter: Director David O. Russell’s gritty, fact-based drama follows two half-brothers from Lowell, Mass., who long for success — and redemption — via the boxing ring. One (Christian Bale, who effectively steals the movie) is a washed-up […]

Family-Faith Film Review: Narnia — The Voyage of the Dawn Treader By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Narnia — The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Swashbuckling sequel, combining live action and animation, in which a brother and sister (Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley) from World War II-era Britain are […]

Statue records show people choose piety over politics In the town of   Swiebodzin in Poland construction has been finalized on the world’s laregst Jesus statue (picture below).   It is 33 meters high (108 feet) which each meter symbolizes one year of Christ’s life.     This Christ statue is higher than the […]

Bill To Provide Aid for Victims of Sexual Slavery and Crackdown On Those Who Exploit Underage Girls Moves to the House of Representatives By U.S. Senator Ron Wyden Washington, D.C. – The United States Senate unanimously approved a bill to aid victims of modern sexual slavery and give law enforcement […]

Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Below is a small portion of a Pew Report.  See entire here. Over the past two decades, the number of Muslims living in Western Europe has steadily grown, rising from less than 10 million in 1990 to approximately 17 million in 2010.1 The […]

Christmas Card Prayers & 12 Days of Christmas By Kari Patterson Oregon blogger Two more fun Christmas traditions: 1. Christmas Card Prayers. I’m never quite sure what to do with Christmas cards when they come. I look, ooh and ahh, read the letter and so forth. But then what? I […]