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RCMP in Manitoba say a woman who went missing in Thompson has been found safe.

On April 16, 2025, Ashern RCMP received a report of a missing 30-year-old female from Thompson.

Mounties said at the time that she was last seen at a residence on Thompson Drive.

RCMP sent out an update later in the afternoon on Wednesday, saying the woman had been safely located. 

The RCMP thanked the public for their assistance.

Chess players from high schools across Winnipeg held a special tournament during spring break in support of peace in Ukraine. 

It was all part of the Manitoba School Chess Championship, which was hosted at Ecole Secondaire Sisler High School on April 1. 

This year, the Chess Club collaborated with the Social Justice Club and the Manitoba Chess Association, playing for peace in Ukraine and collecting funds for the Canada-Ukraine Foundation.

Last month, businesses from all over Manitoba entered Golden West Broadcasting’s Accelerate 2025 contest. The contest was aimed to help small businesses in a time of economic uncertainty by giving away advertising packages to help spread the word about the work that they do in our communities and to help them grow in a turbulent economy. 

A pastor who was abducted while in the middle of a church service in South Africa last week has been safely returned to his family. 

Josh Sullivan, 34, and his family were working at a church in Motherwell in South Africa last Thursday when it's alleged that six armed men entered the church and kidnapped the pastor.

Tom Hately, the pastor of Sullivan's home church, Fellowship Baptist Church in Maryville, Tennessee, announced early Wednesday morning that Josh had been released. 

A Calgary man accused of human smuggling after allegations that he picked up foreign nationals who crossed into Manitoba from the United States has had his charges stayed.

Manitoba Courts confirmed charges under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act were stayed in February for Saleh Youssouf.

Information on why the charges have been stayed was not available.

Youssouf was accused of driving a van last January that held seven men from the Republic of Chad.

Worship artist Chris Tomlin has revived ancient words, transforming 1,800-year-old hymnal texts into a powerful new song.

The lyric and musical notations, found in Egypt, have become known as "The First Hymn." Archaeologists found this artifact in 1918, calling it "P.Oxy 1786." It contained 35 words offering praise to God. 

The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge of a government ban on firearms that Ottawa considers fit only for the battlefield, not hunting or sport shooting. 

The Liberals outlawed some 1,500 firearm models and variants in May 2020, meaning they could no longer be legally used, sold or imported. 

The move was generally applauded by gun control advocates as a first step toward removing firearms used in mass shootings from circulation. 

Liberal Leader Mark Carney's French language skills will be put to the test, and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will seek to turn his numbers around, when the five main federal party leaders square off in Montreal tonight in the first of two debates ahead of election day on April 28.

The two-hour French-language debate will be moderated by Radio-Canada's Patrice Roy and will focus on five themes: the cost of living, energy and climate, the trade war, identity and sovereignty, and immigration and foreign affairs.

Romans 13:8

Love fulfills the law

"Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law."

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John 21:20-22

People of excellence are those who see through the clutching greed of our times—people who have declared their undivided allegiance to Christ's message, people who have humbled themselves to Christ's sovereign authority.