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For more than 25 years Ina Reimer, from Landmark, has helped organize an Operation Christmas Child Shoebox drive. And this year, she would like to see more than 1500 Shoeboxes put together and sent out. Why?

Paul Kelly had a passion to bring Christian music to cities and churches across Canada, and that has been the driving force behind Unite Productions touring bands coast to coast every year since 2002.

Over the years, Unite has seen thousands gather in Jesus’ name to worship and experience God’s love, but in 2020 everything was turned upside down when the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to everything.

"We've been going for a year without getting paid," Kelly explains. "With a show, the box office of the venue holds the money until we deliver the show."

Apple has recently removed the Quran Majeed and the Olive Tree Bible apps from its App Store in China.

The move was first reported by Apple Censorship in a tweet. The group monitors censorship of apps in the Apple Store and regularly reports on it.

According to several media outlets, the company is following a request from the Chinese authorities, who claim the apps violate laws that prohibit the use of religious text or materials.

Churches in Jordan and Lebanon have opened their doors to Afghan refugees, despite the crisis in their own countries.

In the last decade, the Middle East has become one of the regions hosting the largest number of displaced people in the world.

Most of them are from the neighbouring area, as a result of the war that has been ravaging Syria since 2011, but there are also many arriving from further afield, such as Afghanistan.

A ministry is asking for prayers for kidnapping victims after being taken while leaving an orphanage and the organizations looking to free them.

On Saturday in Haiti, 12 adults and five children were taken while in a dangerous empty suburb called Croix-des-Bouquets. This includes children aged eight months, three, six, 13, and 15. The adults are aged 18-48. Everyone is American except for one Canadian.

Arden Bevere is the youngest son of John and Lisa Bevere and the cofounder of Sons & Daughters, a movement committed to raise up a generation of uncompromising followers of Christ who will transform our world.

He has a passion to see his generation go further than any that came before it, fully alive in this God-adventure.

A shell-encrusted sword was found this weekend, believed to be close to one thousand years old.

Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) says a man named Shlomi Katzin was scuba diving off the HaCarmel coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, when he made quite the discovery: a large sword, metal anchors, pottery, and more.

A southern Manitoba pastor, who has had a warrant for his arrest for several months, is in police custody Monday evening.

Tobias Tissen pastors the Church of God Restoration congregation outside of Steinbach. Police issued the warrant for his arrest in late May, but he has eluded arrest for some time, telling media outlets he only wanted to be arrested in church and in front of others.

Sarah Davis is announcing that she will no longer be CEO of RZIM, her late father's company and that she is starting her own apologetics ministry. 

Davis walked through the rise and fall of her father's apologetics ministry, Ravi Zacharias International Ministry (RZIM). She was 10 years old when the ministry started up, and in 2019 was named the CEO of the company. 

Shoaib Ebadi grew up as a Muslim in Afghanistan but his lingering question about creation always lingered in the back of his mind. 

Early Life

"I was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan in a typical and traditional Muslim family. I have four sisters and two brothers. My parents and grandparents, 11 of us lived in one house," says Ebadi who is now the President and Executive Director of Square One World Media in Winnipeg, Man.

When Ebadi was in grade 4, his country experienced a coup d'état.