 Starting in 1993, members of Historic Adventist splinter groups paid to have anti-Catholic billboards that called the Pope the Antichrist placed in various cities on the West Coast, including along Interstate 5 from Portland to Medford, Oregon, and in Albuquerque, New Mexico.One such group took out an anti-Catholic ad on Easter Sunday in "The Oregonian", in 2000, as well as in newspapers in Coos Bay, Oregon, and in Longview and Vancouver, Washington.Mainstream Seventh-day Adventists denounced the advertisements.