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  Melanoma vaccine success sparks hope for broader cancer treatment

  A personalized cancer vaccine developed by Merck and Moderna has shown success in preventing the return of melanoma in a large clinical trial, raising hopes that the same approach could eventually be used against many other types of cancer.

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  YouVersion strengthens alliances to bring the Bible closer to Latin America

  YouVersion gathered leaders from major Christian organizations in Mexico City this week to announce new partnerships and highlight the Bible app's expansion across Latin America.

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  Barna book argues worldview gap explains why many Christians think like the culture

  A new book from Christian researcher George Barna argues that the reason many people who call themselves Christians think and live indistinguishably from the broader culture comes down to a missing foundation — not a lack of sincerity, but the absence of a coherent biblical worldview

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  UN warns children are 'guinea pigs' for unregulated AI as online risks mount

  The United Nations is calling on governments, technology companies and advertisers to act on what it describes as a pressing and consequential policy challenge — the safety, rights and digital future of the world's most connected generation.

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  Canadian evangelical body launches study on pastor shortage

  The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has announced a new research project to assess how many churches across the country lack pastoral leadership and what factors are driving that gap.

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  Most evangelicals give their spiritual lives a C+, new study finds

  A new survey of 1,000 evangelical Protestants in the United States found that believers rate their own spiritual lives at an average grade-point equivalent of 2.42 — roughly a C+ — with evangelism, financial giving and tithing ranking as the weakest areas, according to research released by Infinity Concepts and Grey Matter Research.

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  Michael W. Smith warns worship must not become ‘celebrity driven,' says he's seeing revival among Gen Z

  After more than four decades of standing on stages, with crowds singing his songs by heart, Michael W. Smith is convinced that one of the greatest dangers for a worship leader can be the very thing that signals success: attention and celebrity. 

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