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Rev. Garry LaBoucane remembers going to Wakamne — or God's Lake — during the Lac Ste. Anne pilgrimage as a boy.

"It was always a family tradition," the 74-year-old said in an interview from Vancouver, where he's a Métis priest at Sacred Heart Parish.

He remembers sleeping in a pup tent near the cemetery with his grandfather, attending Latin church services he didn't understand and meeting people from all walks of life.

Extremist violence in northern Nigeria threatens the existence of rural communities.

Taking the Christian music scene by storm initially through TikTok, today Katy Nichole is releasing her first self-titled EP.

"This EP is coming from a real, honest and not holding back anything place because I’m so unashamed to say the name of Jesus and to tell people how good He really is and how treasured by God they are," says Nichole to The Christian Beat. "I want people to know that my God is good even though my circumstances are not always good."

Protesters are massing outside the barricaded U.S. Supreme Court to decry the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that cleared the way for legal abortions in the United States. 

The high court released its final decision this morning, and it differs little from the leaked draft decision that emerged back in May. 

Dozens of states are poised to enact bans on abortion as a result of the decision; many already have such laws on their books despite polls that suggest a majority of Americans support abortion rights. 

Wednesday morning, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake killed over 1,000 people and injured thousands more in southeastern Afghanistan. The epicentre was about 27 miles from the provincial capital city of Khost.

The worst damage occurred in remote and mountainous regions near the border with Pakistan. The number of killed and injured is likely to rise, as the area has unreliable telecommunications and means of reporting casualties.

Governments in Europe have sanctioned hundreds of powerful supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin. One of them is the highest authority of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.

Lizz Truss, the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, announced last week that her country had sanctioned the Orthodox Church leader for his “prominent support of the Russian military aggression in Ukraine”.

A prison ministry across the U.S.A is seeing inmate revival happening. 

God Behind Bars leads praise and worship times for prisoners across America. The ministry was started in 2009 by Jake Bodine who held the first worship time at a prison in Nevada. 

First victimized as an infant, Andi Buerger spent her first 17 years subjected to abuse and sex trafficking at the hands of her own family.

"Before there was even a term called human trafficking, I was trafficked by immediate and some extended family members, from the age of six months until I was 17 years old," said Buerger.

Soldiers and officials have harassed four Protestant churches in Russian-occupied Eastern Ukraine. They conducted searches, demanded to see documents, and stole equipment. In one case, they even forced church members out of their building. All these incidents took place between June 12 and 16.

Registration

Pastor Eric Foley with The Voice of the Martyrs Korea, who has contact with these churches, says they have something in common that would cause officials to harass them: registration with the Ukrainian government.

Russian journalist, Dmitry Muratov auctions off his Nobel Prize medal to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees.

On Monday the Nobel Peace Prize broke the old record for the highest selling price for a Nobel prize, which previously was $4.76 million. On June 20, the gold medal was auctioned off for $103.5 million. The 23-karat gold medal would be worth $10,000 if it were melted down.