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  Avril Lavigne releases worship song after near-death experience

  Pop-rock pioneer of the 2000s, Avril Lavigne has re-emerged after a five-year hiatus with a powerful worship song that reveals her cry to God after encountering a near-death experience.

• Child-free by choice: Why it can be something to celebrate

  My sister has chosen not to have children and chosen not to be a mother.

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  Chris Pratt says nothing fills his soul more than sharing his Christian faith with others

  Chris Pratt is one of Hollywood's biggest stars but he is also a committed Christian who has used his platform to share his faith more than once, and it seems from his latest comments he has no intention of stopping.

• Huge Bible slogan up for 4 Guinness World Records

  A huge slogan painted on a bare Mexican hillside is in the running for no less than four Guinness World Records.

• Love song to a free, church, festival

  A Jesus jamboree, a faith and justice festival featuring all flavours from the length and breadth of our broadest Communion.

• Trick your friends into watching BlackkKlansman. It's the right thing to do

  The tropes keep coming, thick and fast enough to keep a mainstream, unwoke audience munching on its popcorn while the message of the movie slips sneakily up their coke-straws and into the bloodstream.

• Love Christ, love fashion: the Christian brand that's rewriting the rules

  Young Christians ought to grow up wanting to be doctors or nurses, or – even better – ministers or missionaries. It's a well-known fact.

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  Bishop accused of inappropriately touching Ariana Grande is not being investigated, say police

  There is no open investigation into a bishop who came under fire for the way he embraced Ariana Grande during Aretha Franklin's funeral, police have said.

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  Carrie Underwood admits to getting 'mad at God' after three miscarriages

  The country star says God heard her prayers when she broke down sobbing in fear that she was about to suffer a fourth miscarriage earlier this year

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  Mark Wahlberg's insane daily schedule starts at 2:30am with prayer to God

  Academy Award-nominated actor Mark Wahlberg wakes up at 2:30 a.m. every day and then begins his day with 30 minutes of prayer.

• Industry celebrates awards for Christian retailers

  The 2018 Christian Resources Together (CRT) Retailers and Suppliers Retreat triggered a Twitter storm as delegates, award winners and more than 80 exhibitors gathered for their annual meeting at the Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick.

• Lucy Berry: Making things happen, one poem at a time

  She's a subtle observer of life and Christian life, able in a few lines of verse to reveal the pressure point where faith meets hypocrisy, or to nail a profound truth with a single striking image.

• Getty music conference to be beamed live around the world

  UK audiences will have the opportunity to hear celebrated speakers including the Gettys, Alistair Begg, John Piper, Ravi Zacharias, John MacArthur, Tim Keller and more than 50 other speakers and seminar leaders.

• Roy Moore sues Sacha Baron Cohen over 'Who is America?' sting

  Roy Moore, the former US Senate candidate from Alabama, on Wednesday filed a $95 million defamation lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen.

• When is an apology not an apology? What Bishop Charles Ellis should have said to Ariana Grande

  Elton John said it as well as anyone can when he wrote the timeless lyric, 'Sorry seems to be the hardest word.'