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The trailer for a film coming to Netflix focussing on Mary, the mother of Jesus has been released. 

Mary is telling the nativity story of the birth of Jesus and the aftermath as Mary and Joseph flee from King Herod's pursuit. 

Noa Cohen stars as Mary and Ido Tako as Joseph, with Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins playing the role of King Herod.

Jake Burger of the Miami Marlins and his wife, Ashlyn recently introduced their newest addition to the family. 

The duo welcomed their second child, Penelope on Oct 25, 2024. In an exclusive interview with People Magazine, the couple announced that Penelope was born with Down Syndrome.

A GoFundMe page has been set up to support the family of Beau Shroyer, an American missionary who was killed in Angola in late October. 

The 44-year-old was killed on Oct. 25, 2024, in an act of violence while serving Jesus.

Dave Coulier made a devastating announcement this week, letting his friends, family and fans know that he is battling Stage 3 Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

The Full House star discussed this diagnosis during a recent interview on the Today Show. 

President-elect Donald Trump's promise to slap an across-the-board tariff of at least 10 per cent on all imports including from Canada is unlikely to apply to Canadian oil, energy experts are predicting.

The threat of the tariff is causing a lot of concern north of the border, where the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said such a tariff could take a $30-billion bite out of the Canadian economy.

A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged."

The Federal Court lawsuit filed this month in Vancouver says Indigenous children across the country were forcibly removed from their homes and taken "to live with strangers — sometimes hundreds of kilometres from their families and Indigenous communities."

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit.

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Ecclesiastes 3:4; Proverbs 17:22

The Monday Night Football broadcasting team turns the Swindoll family room into a stadium on Monday nights. That's one part of my week when all pressures shift into neutral. Even though I may shout and scream and jump and jeer, it's a relaxing and rewarding experience I thoroughly enjoy. What's more, it's the same for the broadcasters and those players and the refs and those nutty fans surrounding the gridiron. They're all having a ball! 

Canada's Public Health Agency has confirmed that a British Columbia teenager hospitalized last Friday is the country's first ever human case of domestically acquired avian flu.

The agency said in a statement Wednesday that testing at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg confirms the teen did contract the H5N1 avian flu, the same strain related to viruses found in B.C. flocks in an ongoing outbreak at poultry farms.

The community is invited to join the City of Grande Prairie and DownTown Association on December 1 for the Christmas Tree Light-Up at H.A. Rice Plaza and The Bowes at Bonnetts Energy Centre.

Festivities start at 4 p.m. with free cookies, hot chocolate and candy canes, sponsored by Beairsto & Associates Engineering Ltd. The tree lighting ceremony follows shortly afterward at 4:35 p.m.

Visits with Santa and a family-friendly Christmas movie take place in The Bowes after the Christmas Tree Light-Up from 4:45 to 7 p.m.