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Tributes continue to pour in from the Christian and Gospel community following the death of TobyMac Diverse City member Gabe Patillo.

Patillo, a multi-talented man who by age ten, was dancing onstage alongside DC Talk, passed away following a battle with cancer. 

TobyMac quickly took to social media to let the world know how much he respected Gabe. 

A days-long revival at Asbury University in February 2023 not only swept the nation but inspired the new album by Christian singer Jasmine Brady. 

Brady's album Lover of My Soul has 10 tracks on it and is set to be released on May 10. 

"We didn't want to make something just to make something. We wanted to make art." Winnipeg's own, Phoebe Pedrina's new single is set to be released tomorrow and has been covered in prayer. 

'Metamorphosis' is set to be released on Friday, April 19. This has been a long time in the making. "It started more than a year ago. It started with prayer when a couple of us from my church were meeting. We just had it in us that we were going to birth some songs," Pedrina says.

A finalist from Season 22 of The Voice has signed a record deal with Provident Entertainment.

bodie blew fans away on the show when he performed his rendition of Brandon Lakes' hit song 'Gratitude' during the show's finale. 

“This song is very special to me and my family, and it’s an honor to begin this new chapter of my career by first paying tribute to my previous one," shares bodie. "The best songs I’ve ever written are coming out this year, and I can’t be more excited to share them with you soon.”

The highly anticipated season four of The Chosen will be available for streaming services soon. 

Manitoba's own, Barbara Joy Siemens has released a song dedicated to mothers to provide encouragement with what they're going through.  

"For a couple of years, I've been saying to Sharalee [Smith], 'I need a song for Mother's Day and about mothers, you know, being a mother and a grandmother myself. Just a blessing and an encouragement for mothers, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers, your job is so important and there is Proverbs 31 that whole scripture is what the song is all about," Siemens says.

Author and editor Karen Stiller recently released Holiness Here, a book that invites readers to live a holy life alongside God. 

"I'm a writer that starts with questions and not answers," says Karen Stiller. "I was in church one Sunday and one of the priests, I'm an Anglican, prayed a prayer that went like this. 'Give us grace God to lead a holy life.'  I was immediately thinking, what does that mean for me?"

Morden's Ukrainian Catholic Church celebrated 10 years of service on Sunday with a blessing bestowed by the Metropolitan Lawrence Huculak, Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Winnipeg. Morden's parish is the youngest one in Manitoba.  

A teenager is facing charges in relation to a knife attack at an Australian church on Monday, and several people including a bishop and priest are recovering from injuries sustained in the attack as well as in violent clashes with police in the aftermath.

The incident was captured on live stream during a church service Monday evening. Video quickly spread online showing the teenage attacker lunging at Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel of the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church. 

The 2024 Masters Tournament's new champion is using his win to point to Jesus. 

At 27 years old, American Scottie Scheffler took the top spot at the Masters tournament, a contest that decides the best golfer in the world. Ludvig Åberg from Sweden took the second spot, four strokes behind. 

"I believe that today's plans were already laid out many years ago, and I could do nothing to mess up those plans," Scheffler said during the Masters post-tournament conference. "I have been given a gift of this talent, and I use it for God's glory. That's pretty much it."