Despite dangers in Portland neighborhood, church must remain, says pastor
Father Paulinus Mangesho of Immaculate Heart Church and his parishioners are braving bullets and open-air drug markets to make sure
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Father Paulinus Mangesho of Immaculate Heart Church and his parishioners are braving bullets and open-air drug markets to make sure
PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — On warm nights, Father Paulinus Mangesho sleeps in a back room,...
On warm nights, Father Paulinus Mangesho sleeps in a back room, lest stray bullets pierce the rectory walls. Immaculate Heart Church, one of Portland’s mo
A living document speaks to living waters âThe Columbia River Watershed: Caring for Creation and the Common Good,â an international pastoral letter by the Catholic bishops of the Northwest, celebrates its 20th anniversary About 40% of all wheat produced in the United States is shipped in barges, pushed by tugboats, on the Columbia River to Portland, Vancouver, Kelso and Longview. It would take more than 500 trucks to transport the wheat a barge carries. Yet the dams that make the water route possible have devastated salmon runs on the Columbia. The Yakama people,...