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It was an eventful weekend for Manitoba Christian band The Color. 

The band was nominated for a Juno in the Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album category with their newest album, No Greater Love and won.

The other nominees in that category included Jennifer Lewen, Kevin Adams & Voices of Praise, Manic Drive and Movement Worship. 

This is the second win for The Color. The band was also nominated for a Juno Award in 2018 and won for their album First Day of My Life. 

You know her. Maybe you are her. The woman who feels like she must always be "on." The one who is always performing. This is how Mary Marantz felt about her life. 

The Vatican says Pope Francis will stop in Alberta, Quebec and Nunavut during his visit to Canada this summer.

It says the capital cities of Edmonton, Quebec City and Iqaluit will act as bases for the trip from July 24 to 29.

The visit comes after the Pope's historic apology last month for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools in Canada.

Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, general coordinator of the trip for the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, says it will be another important step for healing and reconciliation.

Multiple Canadian ministries are partnering together to gather research in hopes of helping parents raise children to follow God. 

"The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) along with 15 other ministry partners are interested in what parents are doing to disciple their children," says Lindsay Callaway, a researcher with the EFC. "We want to learn how to better support and strengthen families by understanding how parents pass their faith onto their children."

From the Sistine Chapel to da Vinci’s, The Last Supper, fresco paintings are some of the oldest and most durable forms of artwork known to man.

At the intersection of faith and art, Theirs is the Kingdom is a feature-length documentary directed by Christopher Zaluski that follows the rare creation of a contemporary fresco mural by Christopher Holt inside the sanctuary of a small church in Asheville, North Carolina. 

A 90-year-old retired Catholic cardinal has been arrested along with others in relation to protests in Hong Kong three years ago.

On Wednesday, Hong Kong’s national security police arrested Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, former opposition lawmaker Margaret Ng Ngoi-yee, and singer Denise Ho Wan-sze, accusing the three opposition activists of colluding with foreign forces under the National Security Law.

British Columbia's Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed it dropped two dozen COVID-19 violation tickets against three Chilliwack, B.C., pastors who continued in-person worship services in violation of provincial public health orders.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, which represents the pastors, says the fines would have totalled $55,200.

The pandemic left many parents relying on tablets and television to keep their children busy while working from home or in lockdown. 

Molly DeFrank is a mother of six and the author of Digital Detox: A Two-Week Tech Reset for Kids. She wanted more for her family, so she pulled the plug, declaring a digital detox for her kids. The transformation blew her away. 

The Luther House in the German city of Eisenach is hosting an exhibition of the reproduction of the Wiedmann Bible, the only painted Bible that completely reproduces the Old and New Testaments.

The Wiedmann Bible was made by the artist Willy Wiedmann (1929-2013) and it is the longest painted Bible in the world. It consists of 3,333 pictures that he painted over 16 years.

A Winnipeg church has been fined $9,000 in relation to a college graduation ceremony last year which it now admits broke public health orders in Manitoba.

Springs Church posted pictures of a grad ceremony for its Springs College students on May 20, 2021. It quickly sparked controversy in the province as tight restrictions were in place for public gatherings at the time due to COVID-19.