Christian News

Staying in Ukraine or leaving the country has been a decision that hundreds of thousands of people are facing these days.

Tanya Pinchuk, a broadcaster for the Christian radio station Radio M, has decided to stay in Kyiv and help in any way she can. These days she has been sharing her experience of the invasion on social media.

Jordan will begin exporting electricity to Lebanon this month. It’s part of an energy deal brokered in 2021 between Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Here’s why Lebanon needs so much help.

Nuna of Triumphant Mercy Lebanon says her country’s ongoing energy crisis becomes unbearable during the winter months. Millions of refugees and the poorest Lebanese live in makeshift shelters.

“It’s really hard. The snow is piling up; the roof of the tent is made of cardboard,” Nuna says.

Young Christian artist Anne Wilson is releasing a music video for her first single of 2022 reminding people that faith in action matters. 

"My song 'Sunday Sermons' is the story about growing up in church where deep roots began to take hold," says Wilson in a YouTube video, sharing the story behind the new single. 

The video for 'Sunday Sermons' is premiering exclusively on Wilson's Facebook page as of March 2.

After studying in Israel and Egypt in 2007 and discovering that God is better than she ever knew, Kristi McLelland has been teaching the Bible through a Middle Eastern lens.

"The Lord just wrecked my brain, to be totally honest. I've never recovered," McLelland explains. "I tell people all the time I went to Israel and learned that the living God is better than I ever knew, and I thought he was awesome before I went."

The Pope is calling people to mark Ash Wednesday with prayers for the war in Ukraine.

The Pope's Twitter account has sent out a steady stream of prayers for the situation in Ukraine since the conflict began. "Every war leaves our world worse than it was before," he says in a tweet last week. "War is a failure of politics and humanity, a shameful capitulation, a stinging defeat before the forces of evil."

Twins from the U.K. born the size of a Mars bar and given no chance of survival have not only lived but are thriving.

Harley and Harry Crane were born on October 26, 2021, at only 22 weeks and five days gestation. 

Manitoba Christian band The Color has been nominated for another Juno Award this year. 

"It's very exciting," says frontman Jordan Janzen. "We put a lot of time and energy into this album in a season where we really couldn't put our time and energy into a lot of other things."

The band was nominated in the Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album for the Junos with their newest album No Greater Love, announced Tuesday morning.

In 2021, Alpha Canada and Barna Group released research on Canadian GenZ’ers and their understanding of evangelism. The findings were both startling and encouraging.

Christian GenZ appears ready to live out their faith and share it, one personal relationship at a time. But, while they’re willing, Barna research, released last year, revealed that only 16% of these same Canadian teens felt they had been equipped to share their faith.

Five Canadian Christian artists are up for Juno Awards show this year. 

In the category of Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album, the following groups and people were nominated. 

• Songs Of The Lord by Jennifer Lewin 
• For The Kingdom by Kevin Adams & Voices of Praise 
• Vol 1 by Manic Drive 
• Moments by Movement Worship 
• No Greater Love by The Color 

The awards will be handed out on Sunday, May 15, 2022, in-person in Toronto. 

“Eric” oversees a large-scale Bible translation project for unfoldingWord. Russia’s invasion is directly affecting his teammates in the region. “One of our project team members is inside Ukraine, and the other one’s across the border in Russia; his city is also close to the border,” Eric says.

“Movement is impossible. They can hear bombings in the distance; they can’t leave. Parts of the city have no water right now. It’s a dicey situation.”