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February 8, 2022 - During Olympics remember, pray for Olympics

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministries Ministry based in Sandy, Oregon During the 2008 Summer Olympics, I wrote about the ethical concerns with Beijing hosting the games. Just as I did then, I have mixed feelings about these Olympics. Certainly I enjoy watching the athletes, and celebrating the cooperation between […]


February 7, 2022 - Church lawsuit challenges city limit on serving homeless

By Oregon Tax News, An Episcopal Church and its diocese gained national attention after suing the city whose officials limited the number of meals they can serve each week to the needy. St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon filed a federal lawsuit against the city of […]


February 4, 2022 - Biden fails at Prayer Breakfast event

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on President Biden’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast: It’s a good thing that Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t speak first at the National Prayer Breakfast. She would have made President Biden look bad. She gave […]


February 2, 2022 - 4,800 participate at NW mission conference

Christian News NW Photo: Tim Hirsch Subscribe BEAVERTON — It was a weekend of energetic speakers, multi-lingual worship and instructive workshops when the 20th annual Mission ConneXion conference hosted an estimated 1,300 people interested in pursuing missions. More than  2,500 also participated online. All told, there were approximately 80-plus mission-hosted […]


January 31, 2022 - Oregon QB: God has ordered my steps

By Oregon Faith News Note: After three years of playing for the Auburn Tigers, quarterback Bo Nix has transferred to Oregon as a grad student, saying “God has ordered my steps.” The successful quarterback described entering the transfer portal and leaving Auburn after 34 career games with the Tigers, his […]


January 28, 2022 - Redeeming Love to become the #1 new film release

Mission Pictures International, Francine Rivers’ beloved novel Redeeming Love made its film debut this past weekend, landing in the top five films and becoming the #1 new release for the week with audiences giving it a resounding 98% positive audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Exit polls Comscore and Screen Engine […]


January 26, 2022 - Ontario Church honors ‘Go For Broke’ soldiers

    Oregon Veterans Association, Ontario Nazarene Church held a reception for the unveiling of the new U.S. Postal Service commemorative ‘Go For Broke’ stamp on June 14.  The Forever Stamp commemorates the tens of thousands of second-generation Japanese Americans, also known as Nisei, who served in various branches of […]


January 24, 2022 - God’s powerful work behind prison walls

By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministries Ministry based in Sandy, Oregon Here at EPM, we love the ministry of Prison Fellowship. I loved their founder, Chuck Colson, one of the most brilliant and Christ-loving men I’ve ever known. If you’re older you’re familiar with who he was, Richard Nixon’s “Hatchet […]


January 20, 2022 - Huge progress in clergy scandals…except among critics

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the 20th anniversary of the Boston Globe series on priestly sexual abuse: On January 6, 2002, the Boston Globe began a series of stories on its investigation into clergy sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of […]


January 18, 2022 - African American pastors summit against violence

By Oregon Faith News Note, A group of Black pastors in Portland is working with a suicide and substance abuse prevention group to end gun violence in the city and reduce the city’s homicide rate. In December, the groups held a town hall, a Healing Trauma and Resilience Summit, to […]