Oregon Faith Report Survey, A previous Oregon Faith Report survey showed that 38% of Oregonians in the faith community had donated to Haiti relief efforts within the first month.  This is an encouraging number.  What about the 62% that had not given?  Can Oregon ministries improve their fundraising efforts?  The […]

UofO broils over anti-Antisemitism vs. free speech debate Oregon Faith Report News Note: A white nationalist group called the Pacifica Forum has been hosting meetings at the University of Oregon which sponsoring the neo-Nazi National Socialists Movement.   Also occurring have been incidences of antisemetism and anti-gay vandalism. Joseph A. Lieberman […]

Oregon Faith News Note, Eugene has been hit with a rash of fires over the past few days which included multiple times at the Eugene Faith Center.   Police believe they have a suspect who was caught in the act. KMTR News Reports, “Eugene (KMTR) – After a string of arson […]

From Fox News, The Roman Catholic Church in France is objecting to a new pay telephone line set up to receive people’s confessions, AFP reported. The phone line, called “Le Fil du Seigneur,” or “The Line of the Lord,” was set up at the start of the Christian fasting period […]

Two Pentagon police officers were shot when Jon Patrick Bedell went on a  shooting spree.  Both officers shot back and killed Bedell.   Officer Jefferey Amos who took a bullet in the sholder told the Associated Press, “I just thank the Lord that He shielded me when all of this took […]

Palau Team Members Survive Chile Earthquake From Luis Palau Ministries, Beaverton Ruben Proietti is a 32-year member of the Palau team and one of the most respected Christian leaders in Latin America. He was in Santiago working on the upcoming Chile Festival when the February 27 earthquake hit. This is […]

Faith News Note; A senior at Mississippi Itawamba Agriculture High School has been told that she cannot bring her girlfriend to the upcoming High School prom. The ACLU has sent a letter in protest and threatening a lawsuit.   Supporters of the policy say that schools have a right to make […]

Family-Faith Film Review: Alice in Wonderland By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Alice in Wonderland—Very loosely inspired by, but not recklessly departing from, Lewis Carroll’s famous books, this 3-D fantasy-adventure mixes animation and live action as it follows its plucky Victorian heroine (Mia Wasikowska) — here a 19-year-old — […]

Family-Faith Film Review: Cop Out By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Cop Out—This vulgar buddy comedy follows two unconventional New York police detectives (Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan) as they try to recover the valuable baseball card Willis’ character was planning to sell to finance his daughter’s wedding but […]

By Beaver Believer, Portland writer The Academy Awards are just hours away and it is too bad that many of the movies up for Best Picture provide such poor role models in the view of both religion and sexuality. On religion, the film “A Serious Man” delves into Jewish philosophy […]