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As millions of people struggle to recover from monsoons that drowned 30 percent of Pakistan, generous Canadians are providing life-saving emergency supplies through Samaritan’s Purse.

The Calgary-based Christian relief organization is shipping four containers of supplies to Pakistan, including more than 5,000 kitchen sets, 5,400 water filters and 10,000 bags of dehydrated vegetable soup mix – which is the equivalent of a million meal servings.

The first-ever 'Festival of Joy' had thousands of Mongolians hearing the gospel this past weekend, delivered by Franklin Graham. 

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) was in the capital city of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, on September 10 and 11. There were 17,300 people in attendance and over 2,000 people made the first time decision to follow Jesus. 

Meteorologists expect more rain in Pakistan this week, posing a new threat to 668,000 people left homeless by severe seasonal flooding.

Weeks of heavy rains and floods have affected 33 million people; the number of people in makeshift shelters increased by 190,000 since last week. Record-breaking deluges killed at least 1,400 people, washing away roughly $30 billion in housing, farmland, and livestock.

A new report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urges lawmakers to take a closer look at Nigeria. Simultaneously, a second report analyzed by International Christian Concern found kidnappers target Christians ten times more often than Muslims.

According to USCIRF, militant Islamist groups are growing, and significant attacks have become even more frequent. Since “many of the core drivers of violence in Nigeria relate to poor governance,” religious freedom watchdogs recommend diplomatic action.

A true story of a young man’s journey as he sets out to meet his birth parents did well at the box office across North America over the weekend.

Lifemark grossed $2.2 million behind films like Barbarian and Brahmastra Part One: Shiva.

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Source: The Canadian Press

On Christmas Eve 2020, Rev. John Lemire got ready for work: two funerals and three masses.

The Catholic priest in Timmins, Ont., felt "somewhat exhausted" after presiding at back-to-back funeral services but had to quickly switch to the joyful mode of celebrating Christmas. Never far from his mind were the concerns of his parishioners as another COVID-19 lockdown loomed.

As a girl growing up in the Mi'kmaw community of Membertou, Sister Dorothy Moore came to know what it meant to lose one's path and then find the way back through human kindness.

The 89-year-old's life has been documented in a film produced by Mary Jane Harkins, a professor of education at Mount Saint Vincent University, and is scheduled to be shown this Saturday in Halifax at the Atlantic Film Festival.

As The Queen hardly shied away from sharing her faith, Christian artists are celebrating the life of Queen Elizabeth II and her legacy.

Matt Redman shares his thoughts on the Queen's legacy after news of her passing on Thursday, September 8, 2022, after serving England and the Commonwealth for 70 years. 

After 70 years of faithful service as the Queen, perhaps it's the service to Queen Elizabeth II's Saviour that is her legacy.

"Now she's gone to be with her Lord," says Charles Morris with Haven Today on Friday morning, a day after she passed. 

On the radio program, author and journalist Catherine Butcher shared how Queen Elizabeth II's life was one of great faith.

Pregnancy resource centers face another obstacle in their continued mission to provide services to women in crisis: Yelp is adding a “consumer notice” to their listings, a move first reported by Axios.

Yelp announced last week that it would add a notice stating that centers “provide limited medical services and may not have licensed medical professionals onsite.”