As athletes descend on Brazil for the Rio Paralympic Summer Games in September, Drew Bremer, 21, will be among them.
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Stories from people, congregations and ministries of the CRCNA, reported by The Banner's news editor and a team of regular correspondents and Church Worldwide news from the Religion News Service. Send news tips to news@thebanner.org.
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The U.S. State Department warned that religion-based terrorists as well as some governments across the globe are threatening the liberties of religious minorities.
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Ron Vanden Brink of Kelowna, B.C., has been appointed the new director of Diaconal Ministries Canada (DMC), effective August 1
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Most American churchgoers are hearing politics from the pulpits of their churches during this presidential election season, according to a new survey released this month by the Pew Research Center.
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In downtown Niagara Falls, Ont., children are learning about art and social justice through a series of summer day camps run by Christian Reformed Church plant The Bridge.
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In August, 108 Cadets, 36 counselors, and 16 support staff spent a week immersed in nature at Algonquin Park’s Whitefish Lake for the All-Ontario Cadet Camporee.
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For a week in the middle of July, a Christian Reformed Church contingent of four—church members Israel Cooper and Thea deGroot and CRC staff Bernadette Arthur and Shannon Perez—participated in the fourth annual Reconciliation Trip
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For Rev. Ed Den Haan and the Bridging Group of First Christian Reformed Church in Guelph, Ont., it was an exciting day when “our neighbors came to church yesterday.”
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Reading Scripture in English and conversing about it with others is difficult for non-English speaking immigrants who attend Bible studies.
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For students who want a hands-on college experience, Dordt College plans to launch a career-focused two-year degree program in fall 2017.
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When Vacation Bible School (VBS) ended last week at Woody Nook CRC in Blackfalds, Alta., the children had raised over $1,600 for programs that help improve access to clean drinking water in places like Haiti and Africa.
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Camp SHOUT (See Him Open Up Truth), a four-week day camp at Jubilee Fellowship Christian Reformed Church in St. Catharines, Ont., is noisy, fast, and crowded
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The board of governors of Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ont., announced last week that president Hubert Krygsman is stepping down.
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For more than 15 years, Criminal Justice Chaplaincy has worked with Calvin Christian Reformed Church and other churches in Grand Rapids, Mich., to mentor women recently released from prison.
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Twenty participants with special needs, 20 mentors, and countless other volunteers spent last week SERVE-ing in Ottawa, Ont., Canada’s capital city.
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River Rock Church, a Christian Reformed congregation in Rockford, Mich., is showing outdoor movies as a way to help the community become familiar with its location.
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Pastor, professor, missionary, pilot, gardener, skilled builder, and talented woodworker, James Calvin De Young was a man who enjoyed new challenges and liked to keep busy.
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Several U.S.-based religious denominations remain defiant in the face of new laws that would ban them from proselytizing in Russia.
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