by Aimee Green and The Oregonian | Jan 7, 2011 | News
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) A man who secured a $900,000 settlement for alleged abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest has yet to see a penny more than seven years after the church paid out the money. In a lawsuit filed this week in Multnomah County Circuit Court, the man...
by Kimberly Melton and The Oregonian | Dec 10, 2010 | News
(RNS) Oregon state officials released a policy on Wednesday (Dec. 8)intended to give school districts guidance in applying Oregon’s new law on religious clothing. A statewide ban on teacher religious dress was originally enacted in 1923 to keep Catholic nuns from...
by Candice Ruud and The Oregonian | Dec 2, 2010 | News
CORVALLIS, Ore. (RNS) Rain didn’t stop the Corvallis community from showing up in swarms at a candlelight vigil Tuesday (Nov. 30) outside a mosque that was hit by arson after an occasional worshipper was charged in a terror plot. Residents came by the hundreds,...
by Julie Sullivan and The Oregonian | Sep 3, 2010 | News
(RNS) A Baptist minister from Oregon who was killed in Afghanistan on Monday (Aug. 30) is the first Army chaplain to die in combat since Vietnam, according to the Army. Capt. Dale Allen Goetz, 43, died in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan’s Arghandab River Valley. He...
