By Christian News NW Subscribe OLYMPIA, Wash. — A controversial measure will be on Washington’s general election ballot in November, and evangelical Christians are being credited in part for that. Despite the pandemic, 266,000 signatures — nearly twice the number required and a record number for a social issue initiative […]

By Cascade Policy Institute The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 30 in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue that states’ school choice laws may not discriminate against religiously affiliated schools. Montana’s tax credit scholarship program, passed in 2015, enabled families to send their children to the private schools of their […]

(Photo: woman mourns descrating of St. Junipero Serra. video) By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Anti-Catholicism is sweeping California. Attacks on Catholic statues, public complaints about Catholics attending Mass, the selective enforcement of executive orders on religious gatherings, and politicians seeking to intimidate priests and bishops, are commonplace. […]

By Oregon Right to Life, The so-called “Reproductive Health Equity Act” (HB 3391) forces insurance companies in Oregon to cover abortions with no deductibles or copays. The law has many additional provisions which expanded abortion coverage. Now, any woman in Oregon can obtain an abortion essentially for free. From the […]

(Photo: of the Brown family) By Randy Alcorn Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon based ministry Soon after the death of George Floyd, Kelsey Brown, a woman I know and deeply respect, who lives here in Oregon, shared the following words on Facebook. (Kelsey’s husband Vergil, founding pastor of Gresham Bible Church, […]

By Beckett Law, The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of two California Catholic schools, finding that the government cannot control a church school’s decision about who teaches its religion classes. In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James Catholic School v. Biel, the Becket Fund for […]

By Lois Anderson Oregon Right to Life, Previously we asked the public to contact your state senator and representative, asking them to vote for SB 1606. I’m so happy to report that it passed unanimously!!! In fact, this effort was bipartisan, driven by Sen. Sara Gelser, a Democrat, who asked […]

Tom Krattenmaker USA Today contributor and Yale divinity School communications director After weeks of dominating the news and public imagination — so much so that it upstaged a historic pandemic — the burst of anti-racism fury, hope and energy is receding from the headlines. With that comes the ever-present temptation […]

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, The smashing of religious statues is all the rage. While the extent of the vandalism is new, the ideological forces that unleashed it started a generation ago. If there is one date that marks the beginning of this crusade it is January […]

By Christian News NW   BREMERTON, Wash. — The school district here was within its rights five years ago when it in 2015 fired a high school football coach who refused to stop praying on the gridiron after games, a federal judge ruled last month. U.S. District Court Judge Ronald […]