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DiggPirate/Getty ImagesA new study shows that America's Christian majority has been shrinking for years, and if recent trends continue, Christians could make up less than half the U.S. population within a few decades. -
Antonio Sierra/OPBNearly 150 years ago, the Wallowa Band of the Nez Perce people were exiled. For three decades, they’ve held the Tamkaliks Celebration to commemorate their return. After missing two years due to COVID-19, the gathering has resumed.
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The author, who was brutally attacked in New York, has been the subject of death threats since his book The Satanic Verses was published in 1988. -
When Randy Schiefer was hospitalized with COVID-19, he wasn't sure he would survive. Now, he looks back at that experience as the most important thing that has ever happened to him.
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An Oregon Court of Appeals ruling earlier this year found the state's initial award of $135,000 in damages against Sweet Cakes By Melissa showed signs of bias.
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Ernest Robison's son, Matthew, never walked or jumped. But after the boy's death, Robison said, "I got the idea that he would just be able to rise physically from his wheelchair and go up to heaven."
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Oregon's strict law regulating health care mergers may keep religiously affiliated health systems that do not provide abortion care from expanding.
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Female rabbis have become a way of life these days, but Sally Priesand changed the course of women and Judaism when she became the first female rabbi in the United States in June 1972.
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The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning — and even before.
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California’s Catholic bishops want the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a state sex abuse law, setting up another conflict with the high court.
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Katherine Stewart about her book The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
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The Catholic Diocese of Phoenix found that Rev. Andres Arango had been incorrectly saying "we baptize" instead of "I baptize." The error made thousands of baptisms and subsequent sacraments invalid.
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The City of Brookings, Oregon is being sued after the city passed an ordinance that prohibited St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church from serving more than two free meals a week to the homeless without a permit.
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For a second time, Oregon judges have found a former Gresham bakery could not refuse service to a same-sex couple on religious grounds. But the court found problems with a $135,000 ruling.
