14 children from Holt Fontana Village in Haiti travel to the United States to be united with their permanent families By Holt International Happiness and tears washed over the faces of the caretakers and staff at Holt Fontana Village in Haiti on Tuesday, February 2nd, as they all gathered around […]

Excerpt from The Christian Post, “Pro-football player Michael Vick got two unique shots this past week to reveal to the public how 18 months in prison and his newfound faith has made him a new man – a different man.  On Saturday, during the Super Bowl Breakfast, Vick shared with […]

Charities push back on plan to limit deductions By Eric Fingerhut WASHINGTON (RNS) For the second time in as many years, the Obama administration is proposing to reduce the tax deduction that wealthy taxpayers receive for charitable contributions.  And once again, some charities—including several religious groups—are pushing back against the […]

By Oregon Catholic Sentinel, PORTLAND — When staff of the Catholic Sentinel told Deacon Owen Cummings how excited they were he had consented to write the paper’s Question Box column, the shrewd Scotsman responded in typical style: “Obviously, you all need to get out more.” Cummings, a 61-year-old professor of […]

NW Business Litigation Blog Ater Wynne Oregon Attorneys at Law Last week, the Oregon Court of Appeals addressed a First Amendment issue that had been untouched by both the United States Supreme Court and the Oregon courts. In Tubra v. The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, the Oregon Court […]

By John Fortmeyer, CNNW publisher Christian News Northwest, Subscriptions A “disaster of Biblical proportions” was a common description of the December 2004 tsunami that killed an estimated 230,000 people in 14 nations on the Indian Ocean. Thousands of churches and Christian ministries and churches responded by participating in a huge […]

President Obama’s Speech at National Prayer Breakfast I want to thank the Co-Chairs of this breakfast, Representatives Heath Shuler and Vernon Ehlers. I’d also like to thank Tony Blair for coming today, as well as our Vice President, Joe Biden, members of my Cabinet, members of Congress, clergy, friends, and […]

From Paris With Love — Faith-Family Film Review By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting From Paris With Love—A Paris-based American diplomat and low-level CIA agent (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) yearns to be a real spy but finds himself bewildered when assigned to partner a trigger-happy visiting operative (John Travolta) whose […]

Dear John: Faith-Family Film Review By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Dear John—This frequently sentimental drama, set in South Carolina, charts the love-at-first-sight romance between a Special Forces sergeant (Channing Tatum) home on leave to visit his mildly autistic father (Richard Jenkins) and an affluent college student (Amanda Seyfried), […]

The Focus on the Family ad about college football star Tim Tebow has been approved by CBS to run during the Super Bowl. The ad is still not public, so below I feature a story about it. Rejected Doritos ad