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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins a third term in office, securing another five years of Hindu nationalist rule. Modi is only the second PM in India’s history to gain a third term.

The cause of Mandisa's death has been revealed.

An autopsy report obtained by People magazine says the former American Idol contestant died from complications from Class III obesity. 

Carl Lentz is back in the spotlight, but not back in ministry. 

The former Hillsong Pastor was fired from Hillsong East Coast in 2020 after he confessed to having an extra-marital affair. 

He spoke about what happened and the healing journey that followed in a docuseries in 2023. 

Blind Christian singer Blessing Offor shares his loss of words after the sudden passing of his mother on Tuesday. 

"I have the enviable job of literally playing with words all day for a living," says Offor. "So I’m always surprised when words fail me. This is one of those moments. My mom, the fulcrum of our family, whose quiet dignity was unmistakable, whose wisdom was unassailable, whose hugs were the best, passed suddenly Tuesday morning."

Offor was born in Nigeria and was the youngest of six children. He came to Canada with his uncle when he was six years old. 

Brian Doerksen, a renowned Canadian Christian singer-songwriter and worship leader from Abbotsford, BC, and Marika Siewert, an award-winning director, actor, and recording artist based in Langley, BC, will stop in Winnipeg later this week. 

It's all part of Doerksen's Come Now is the Time to Worship Tour. 

"It's kind of a marking of 25 years of that song," said Doerksen. "We share some of the stories behind the songs and then we'll share our current singles we've done together."

This will be the first time that Marika has had the opportunity to visit Winnipeg. 

After 23 bids the personal Bible of Elvis Presley sold at auction for $150,000 recently to an anonymous bidder. 

The bidding took place through Kruse GWS Auctions over Memorial Day weekend. 

"Kruse GWS Auctions has worked closely with the Presley family, MGM archives, museums, top Hollywood archive facilities and has represented 16 royal family collections at public sales," the website states.

After Presley's passing in 1977, his dad Vernon and cousin Patsy were sorting through all his personal items at Graceland. 

A former member of Rend Collective is preparing to release a children's book.

Ali Gilkeson says she hopes the book, inspired by Rend Collectives' platinum-selling song 'My Lighthouse,' will encourage and remind children they are not alone.

The former CO of Amazon Prime Video is using her skills to launch a Christian app that will bring believers together across the globe. 

"Zaia is a new app we just launched," says Ukonwa Ojo, founder and CEO of Zaia Ventures. "The entire premise of it is that there are 2.6 billion believers around the world but we are fragmented around 46,000 denominations. I really wanted to build a place for all God's kids to get together."

Zaia translated means 'the light.' Ojo is hoping this new app will allow Christians from every denomination to come together in unity. 

God is on the move across Winnipeg and southern Manitoba.

Grant Memorial Church was packed with over 1,000 young adults last night for the final Bread We Break of season 12. 

The bi-monthly worship event also included a brief message with the topic of prayer and gave each person who attended an opportunity to pray for the church as a whole and those in leadership in Winnipeg's churches. 

What has been known as a European country without much faith, the Netherlands has recently become an epicentre of Christian believers coming together. 

In the middle of May about 63,000 Christians in the Netherlands gathered to praise God during the 54th annual Opwekking Pentecost Conference in Walibi, Holland.

"Revival means following Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit," says opwekking on Instagram. "This is our desire: The Netherlands full of Jesus."