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ChristianCurrent, a new initiative by ChristianWeek, was launched March 1. ChristianCurrent is a group of regional free-distribution newspapers combining national content with regional and local stories. Veteran Christian journalist Lloyd Mackey is the paper’s affiliate publisher in Ottawa. Mackey launched Christian News Ottawa five years ago and was founding editor of Christian Info News in B.C. Robert White, who has written for ChristianWeek, heads operations in Ontario’s Golden Triangle (Guelph, Kitchener–Waterloo, Cambridge). The executive publisher of ChristianCurrent is David Visser, who also publishes ChristianWeek and is operations manager of Essence Communications Group in Belleville, Ont. More information about ChristianCurrent is available from its web site. – ChristianCurrent
Best-selling author John Grisham’s novel The Testament was named “Best e-book for Unbelievers” at the Christian Resources Exhibition in England in May. The award was part of the National Christian Book Awards, organized by the Christian Book Promotions Trust of the United Kingdom and sponsored by four of Britain’s Christian newspapers. – Evangelical Press News Service
The first draft translation of the Bible in the Inuktitut language, an official language of Nunavut, has been completed. Approximately 28,000 people, primarily the Inuit of Canada’s eastern Arctic and northern Quebec, speak Inuktitut. The Canadian Bible Society project began in 1978 with four Anglican ministers from Baffin Island. Inuktitut has a long oral tradition but no written form of the language was made until the late 1800s when Edmund Peck brought the syllabic system (based on a phonetic form of writing) to the Arctic. The translation is expected to be completed by 2005. – Canadian Bible Society
The 10th annual Movieguide Faith & Values Awards Gala and Report to the Entertainment industry was held Mar. 20 in Bel Air, Calif. The Best 2001 films for families were The Princess Diaries (1), Monsters, Inc. (2), Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (3), Shadow Magic (4), Spy Kids (5), Shrek (Best Film for Older Children and Teenagers) (6), The Dish (7), and The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition (8). The Best 2001 films for mature audiences were The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (1), A Beautiful Mind (2), An American Rhapsody (3), I Am Sam (4), Jurassic Park III (5), On the Line (6), Pearl Harbor (7), and Kandahar (8). The Epiphany Prize for the most inspiring movie in 2001 was The Body, distributed by Lions Gate Films/TriStar/ Sony. The Epiphany prize for the most inspiring TV program in 2001 was The Miracle of the Cards, broadcast by Pax TV. The Grace prize for the most inspirational movie actor was Whoopi Goldberg for Kingdom Come. The Grace prize for the most inspirational television actor was Catherine Oxenberg in The Miracle of the Cards. – Christian Courier
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