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After much change in leadership within the past few months, Gateway Church has a new pastor stepping up on Sunday mornings once again. 

After the founder and former pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, Robert Morris, confessed to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl back in the 80s, he quit his job on June 18, 2024. Filling in the gap, Morris' son, James, took the pastoral position shortly after. 

A family of four is grateful to a young adult from Connecticut who sprang into action when their house was on fire. 

Eliezer Reyes, a 23-year-old, was driving around with his girlfriend when he noticed a house in the area had smoke billowing out of it. Instead of continuing on to his destination, Reyes drove straight for the house. 

Three members of the Grammy-nominated gospel band, The Nelons, died in a tragic plane crash Friday afternoon in Wyoming.

The family group were on their way to join the Gaither Homecoming Cruise to Alaska when tragedy struck.

The crash claimed the lives of Jason and Kelly Nelon Clark, Amber and Nathan Kistler and their assistant, Melodi Hodges. The pilot, Larry Haynie and his wife, Melissa were also killed in the crash. 

A dance troupe performing at the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics drew the ire of Christians around the world after they appeared to mock Jesus and the Last Supper.

The ceremony, held on Friday along the Seine River in the French capital, featured the traditional parade of nations. It was the first time in Olympic history the ceremony was held outside a stadium.

To honour their bandmate who recently passed away, the Oak Ridge Boys are releasing a new music video. 

Joe Bonsall, the tenor vocalist of the country and gospel vocal quartet the Oak Ridge Boys, passed away a few weeks ago on July 9, 2024. He led the vocals for the group for 51 years and passed away at the age of 76 from ALS. 

With the devastating fires in western Canada, one Christian organization is setting up an evacuation centre to help affected families. 

Samaritan's Purse is in Kamloops, B.C. after the request of B.C. Emergency Management and Climate Readiness, the Christian disaster relief organization has sent a team of specialists to British Columbia, where they are setting up and operating a 100-bed evacuation facility.

Christian singer and songwriter Anne Wilson received some backlash following a recent performance.

While performing at the Faster Horses Festival, Wilson was asked to perform a duet alongside Jelly Roll.

Wilson was excited to follow through with this last-minute ask, posting her reaction video on social media.

"When Jelly Roll asks you last minute to sing with him and you say YES!!!!!" said Anne Wilson in a post on Instagram.

In the video, you can see Anne excited and running around preparing for this special performance. 

The Christian band CAIN made a teary-eyed announcement on social media, sharing some happy news with the world. 

CAIN is made up of a brother and two sisters, Logan, Taylor, and Madison. The siblings not only sing and tour together, but they've been starting families at the same time in the last few years. The brother, Logan and his wife have two children. Taylor Cain Matz has a daughter and recently announced that she's expecting her second child. 

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan have agreed to US-mediated peace talks. The RSF and the Sudanese army will meet in Switzerland on August 14 to discuss a possible end to the conflict, which has raged for over a year and displaced nearly 10 million people.

Creating songs from Canada for Canadians and Canadian churches is what Royal Anthems hopes to do, and hasn't happened to this extent in the past.

As Canada is so spread out, Royal Anthems Director Matthew Grieve says that people in Toronto don't know what is happening in Vancouver churches and vice versa.