By Faith News Note, Federal officials describe human trafficking as modern-day slavery and one of the fastest-growing criminal industries in the world, but last year only counties in Oregon prosecuted any cases. That’s because most state and local agencies and even the general public don’t believe it exists, said Rusty […]

Featured in the Oregon Transformation Newsletter, Q and A with Chuck Bennett, Mayor of Salem, Oregon You’ve been a journalist, state legislator and lobbyist. In an era when many would rather not be involved in public service, what have you found rewarding about being the mayor of Salem? I’ve spent […]

Liberty Counsel, United Parcel Services (UPS) has discriminated against employees’ religious freedom for voluntarily praying together before work. Several drivers also have been fired. Liberty Counsel sent a demand letter to UPS stating that drivers’ prayer meetings must be allowed again, and the drivers who have been fired must be […]

By NW Baptist Witness, By Sue Sprenkle, Baptist Press: Months of unrest and protests have transformed Hong Kong from a hub of global finance to an unpredictable place of upheaval. Butch Tanner, pastor of Kowloon International Baptist Church (KIBC), sees the wear and tear from the last six months in […]

By Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon based ministry One of the best-known photographs from the Vietnam War is a Pulitzer Prize–winning picture of a young burn victim running in terror, arms outstretched, after a napalm bomb was dropped on her village. After months of hospitalization and multiple surgeries, nine-year-old […]

By Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on a new effort to ensure religious liberty: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been a vocal advocate of religious liberty, both here and abroad. He has now established a new International Religious Freedom Alliance with […]

Oregon Right to Life Press Release, (Photo: 2020 Oregon March for Life) On January 14, Oregon Right to Life (ORTL) filed a complaint with the U.S. Office for Civil Rights, challenging the abortion-related health insurance coverage mandated by the 2017 Oregon Reproductive Health Equity Act. Oregon requires health benefit plans […]

US Senator Ron Wyden, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden today announced he is co-sponsoring bipartisan legislation that would designate 9-8-8 as a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. Amid deeply troubling statistics about suicide in Oregon and nationwide, Wyden has been a long-time advocate of setting aside a three-digit […]

Pioneering broadcaster SAT-7 today announced a virtual, “real-time” television news-talk show — Signal — that is the first program of its kind encouraging Iran’s “secret church” — at a time when U.S.-Iran tensions have ramped up the threat of persecution against Iranian Christians. Middle East satellite TV network SAT-7 (www.sat7usa.org) […]

By Randy Alcorn, Eternal Perspectives Ministry Oregon based ministry This article is well done and is on a vital subject I’m deeply concerned about: the numbers of young people leaving the church, in what this article calls “the church exodus crisis.” I encourage pastors, parents, and those serving with youth […]