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Shelley Thody's childhood started great. She went to church regularly and knew that she loved Jesus. 

As she grew older, she stopped reading the Bible and moved further away from Jesus. 

By the time she was in grade 12, she had moved, met new people and made some unhealthy choices. 

"When we moved from St. Albert to Calgary, we kind of stopped making it a regular thing to go to church, and it was becoming a bit distant," said Shelley. "It's interesting because my life started to change a little. I started to feel down. It was not like my personality at all." 

Taylor Cain Matz welcomed her first child to the world this week, a little girl. 

"From start to finish, this delivery was a complete JOY!!!" says Matz on Instagram. "We welcomed this shining star into the room with happiness and laughter!"

Sean BE is a former children's pastor turned Christian singer/songwriter. 

The journey has been filled with plenty of success but also pride.

"I grew up, my family, all in church and my grandpa was a pastor. And so I always had that faith and those guidelines to walk by," said Sean. "What I was missing, especially in my teenage years, was that mentor to come alongside me. There is a difference between your family and a mentor. And there are just some things you would feel more comfortable talking to a mentor about than opening up to your family."

Refusing to review evidence from a Christian couple trying to recover their 12-year-old daughter after she was allegedly kidnapped and forced to convert and marry, a judge in Pakistan last week denied them custody, sources said.

Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan of the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi Bench on Thursday (Aug. 18) denied the petition by Parvez Masih and his wife, Yasmeen, seeking custody of their daughter Zarvia, said rights activist Sherkan Malik.

In the mountains of Ethiopia, there lived a group of about 6,000 people unreached by the story of Jesus. They practice a local animist religion, believing that all beings have a life force and that spirits can possess people.

In a 2010 poll, 11 percent of Ethiopians said sacrifices to spirits or ancestors could protect them from harm.

A nearly 200-year-old church building burned to the ground in a "scene of complete devastation" last week but firefighters were able to pull a historic Bible from the blaze giving the congregation hope to cling to.

The fire took place in Oxford, Mississippi at College Hill Presbyterian Church. It was built in 1844 and the Bible has sat on the pulpit every day for 178 years. 

Immanuel Fellowship Church is inviting everybody to the premiere of its sixth movie, The Serpent, which touches on themes of the Devil's deception and wickedness on humanity.

June 8, 1972, is a date that Kim Phuc Phan Thi will never forget. 

It was in the middle of the Vietnam war. Kim Phuc was just nine years old when an American military advisor coordinated a napalm bombing of Kim's village by the South Vietnamese.

"The soldiers yelled at us to run," said Kim Phuc. "I saw the airplane was so fast. So close. So loud. I turned my head. I looked up, and I saw four bombs landing. Suddenly the fire was everywhere around me. I was just so scared."

The Helsinki Court of Appeal has announced the dates of the hearings of the Päivi Räsänen case, which finished its first stage with a victory of the Christian parliamentarian in March.

Justin Bieber is back on the road after being sidelined this summer by a medical condition and he's been unashamed about sharing his faith with the thousands of fans in the audience each night.