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A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocked southwestern Pakistan yesterday, near the Afghanistan border. The quake killed over 20 people and injured at least 300.

Four of the people who died were working in a coal mine when it collapsed. It was the early morning hours, and miners around the region had already begun work. The death toll will probably rise as rescuers search remote areas, home to several more coal mines. The military airlifted several injured to nearby Quetta.

India’s Gospel workers face major challenges due to COVID-19, but they’re also seeing positive growth.

“We’ve been encouraged to see them using some of the new technology available for the administration of the indigenous Church,” John Pudaite of Bibles For The World explains.

As more believers see needs in the global Deaf community, they increasingly support sign language Bible translation. Dan* from DOOR International says Scripture distribution – providing Deaf believers with access to the finished translation – is advancing, too.

“It’s an exciting and challenging time in Scripture distribution. Thirty years ago, doing Scripture distribution on video looked like a stack of VHS tapes,” Dan says.

“Deaf people are more connected and more able to communicate with other Deaf people [today] than ever before in history.”

Pope Francis today expressed "shame" for himself and the Roman Catholic Church for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in putting the needs of victims first.

The pontiff spoke during his regular Wednesday audience at the Vatican about a report released yesterday estimating 330,000 French children were abused by clergy and other church authority figures dating back to 1950.

With the help of the pandemic and a lot of downtown to write and record songs, the famous Newsboys is thrilled to release their latest album, STAND. 

"STAND is available right now wherever you listen to music! We can’t believe this project is finally out in the world and we are so excited for these songs to impact YOUR lives the way they have impacted ours!" says the band on Facebook the day of the release.

When a local church that was hoping to minister to forest fire evacuees encountered issues because of COVID restrictions they chose to adapt and the end result was ministering to even more people than those originally intended.

Evacuees from Little Grand Rapids and Pauingassi First Nations have been living in Winnipeg hotels for months after forest fires destroyed power lines into the two communities. The Red Cross reached out to local church Encounter Life Ministries on the weekend, saying the people would like to hold a worship gathering. 

The head of France's Catholic bishops conference is asking forgiveness from the estimated 330,000 victims of child sex abuse by the Catholic church.

A groundbreaking report was released today after extensive research in France's first major reckoning with the issue. The 2,500-page document is based on information from church, judicial and police archives regarding sexual abuse. The investigation was carried out by the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Ciase).

October is autism awareness month in Canada.

It is estimated that 1 in 66 children and youth has been diagnosed with autism in Canada, yet Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a condition that remains misunderstood by many people. Teresa Hedley wants to change that.

"Awareness is like handing out catcher's mitts," Hedley explains. "It helps us to know what to do and how to receive and understand a person with autism."

While her song was written out of a place of grief, Francesca Battistelli's new song and music video are sure to inspire. 

"A few years ago a friend of ours went through a devastating loss. I really wanted to write a song that would honour what he went through and really speak to that idea of how tragedy affects our lives because, at one point or the other, it does affect all of us," says Battistelli in a video on her Facebook. 

Hundreds of U.N. aid trucks are getting stuck, unable to deliver much-needed aid into the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

Truck drivers report fearing for their own security. Many don’t have the fuel they need to complete their journeys. The war, fought for almost a year by the Ethiopian government against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, is putting the population at risk of famine and has displaced many people from their homes.