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Five people have died and thousands have fled their homes as wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles.

Several Christian artists, authors, actors and actresses have taken to social media to share their experiences and ask for prayer. 

Candace Cameron Bure was devastated after driving past the home she owned for 30 years in the Palisades. Bure and her husband sold the house a year ago, and on Wednesday discovered it had completely burned to the ground.

A young Colombian pastor, his wife and their daughter are dead after they were attacked following a church service late last month.

Pastor Marlon Lora, 43, his wife Yurlay Rincon, 40, his daughter Ángela, 24 and their son, Santiago, 21, were enjoying lunch together on Dec. 29, 2024, when a group of gunmen on motorcycles began shooting at them.

The attack killed, Marlon, Yurlay and Ángela and left Santiago severely injured. 

The development and construction of the largest Christian monument ever made is underway in the United Kingdom. 

The monument, titled The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, will be located 90 miles north of London, England, stationed at Coleshill, Birmingham. 

The wall will be designed as an infinity loop and consist of one million white digital bricks. 

Canadian Christian musicians will soon have an opportunity to grow in the field. The Canadian Christian Artist Accelerator cohort is set to start at the end of this month and applications are being accepted now. 

"Jaylene [Johnson] and I had this vision for wanting to grow artists in Canada," says Canadian Christian artist, Elenee. "Having been a recipient of accelerators in the past for my music or business, I've found it's a really great expedited learning experience." 

A Dallas church devastated by fire in July 2024 has moved from disaster recovery mode to reconstruction.  

Dr. Ben Lovvorn of First Baptist Dallas announced in a video on Tuesday that crews are making great progress in carefully deconstructing the church's north wall. 

Author and speaker Annie F. Downs has written a children's book together with her sister, Tatum Green, in hopes of helping young families deal with grief and loss. 

"My youngest son T.J. was born with some significant health issues and we knew we wouldn't have him for long but we didn't know how long," said Tatum. "He lived for 56 days before he passed away and in that time we really wanted a resource to be able to walk our two-year-old son through losing his little brother."

In a historic first for the Vatican, Pope Francis on Monday named a woman to head a major Vatican office.

The pope appointed Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic Church’s religious orders.

The decision marks a major step in the pope’s plan to give women more leadership roles within the male-dominated clergy. Prior to Brambilla’s appointment, never before has a woman been named prefect of a dicastery or congregation in the curia, the governing organ of the Catholic Church.

A well-known pastor is in need of prayer as he continues to deal with a series of health issues that have kept him from the pulpit since the second half of 2024.

Grace Community Church elder and staff pastor Tom Patton updated congregants on Sunday saying that pastor John MacArthur, 85, has required a number of surgeries and his recovery has been slower than expected with occasional setbacks affecting his heart, lungs and kidneys.

Syria’s de-facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, met with Christian clerics in Damascus on New Year’s Eve. This positive step came after several alarming incidents in the week leading up to Christmas. 

Vineyard Church in Duluth, MN, as well as its parent organization, Vineyard USA, are facing nine civil lawsuits since a few of the pastors have been charged with sexual misconduct. 

This comes after former youth and online pastor of The Vineyard Church, Jackson Gatlin, took a plea in November 2024 for criminal sexual conduct with a child.