Faith and Family Film Review: Invictus By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Invictus—Uplifting sports drama, based on actual events, about South African President Nelson Mandela’s (Morgan Freeman) campaign to unite his country behind the national rugby team (led by Matt Damon), once a widely hated symbol of white privilege […]

By JOHN FORTMEYER, CNNW publisher Christian News Northwest, Subscriptions OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington’s voters have had their say, but the passage of Referendum 71 — which expands the rights of registered domestic same-sex partners, may only be the prelude to continued controversy. The statewide vote on the hotly debated Referendum […]

The Saint Child ministry is being highlighted because a charity concert is being held this Saturday at Valley Catholic High School – details here. Testimony from Saint Child, Hillsboro, Oregon A Second Chance Hi, my name is Ali, I’m 20 years old and 9 months pregnant with a girl. Let […]

By Oregon Faith Report, Members of the Slavic community, including Ukrainian immigrants and followers of the Slavic Baptist church, have been drawn into a Salem child abuse case that has left their community confused and unsure about how their culture and religion inter-connect with state child protection laws. The case […]

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service, After years of warnings from Anglican leaders, Saturday’s (Dec. 5) election of a lesbian bishop poses a stark question for the Episcopal Church: Does it want to continue to be a full member in the global Anglican Communion, or go its own way?  In […]

Oregon Faith Report Reader Survey 1. A new U. S. Justice Department policy emphasizes a focus on drug traffickers and illegal  growers rather than prosecution of medical marijuana users. Do you agree or disagree with the policy?  Additional Reader Comments: -Medical Marijuana should be protected and available -Always on illegal […]

Faith and Family Film Review: Up in the Air By Catholic Office of Film and Broadcasting Up in the Air—Polished but morally ambivalent comic drama about an emotionally isolated, though contented, single businessman (George Clooney) who spends his life in chain hotels and airports as he travels from city to […]

Faith and Family Film Review: The Road By the Catholic Office for Broadcasting and Film The Road—This moving but relentlessly grim drama, set in the wake of an unspecified apocalypse, follows the desperate journey of a father (Viggo Mortensen, mesmerizing) and son (fine newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee) as they travel through […]

By Oregon Faith Report, Circus on the Streets is a new program by Portlander Sarah Stein set in the colorful Lower East Side of New York City in the 1920’s and 30’s. These are colorful and memorable stories which Sarah wrote about her family’s life during the 1930’s and early […]

Life of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen to be celebrated 30 years later with memorial Mass PEORIA, Ill., Emmy Award winning TV personality Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be remembered in a memorial Mass on the 30th anniversary of his death, December 9, 2009. Sheen is being called a “Saint for […]