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Sandi Patty was one of the first Christian musicians to achieve a mainstream following. Her life has taught many Christians important lessons in God’s love, moving on, learning from mistakes, and grace.

One reviewer called the Oscar winner "very much a movie of the moment—a feel-bad hit for our feel-bad age."

Mother Cabrini is a young Italian woman with a heart for the world's poor and a bold plan to meet their needs.

Her plan: launch a ministry in Asia, where -- she says -- poverty is ripping through the continent rapidly and the poor are in desperate need of food, housing, and medicine. She wants to launch a series of orphanages. First, though, she needs the approval of the Vatican, which she has written a dozen times. Finally, she gets a much-desired meeting with the Pope.

"For one little woman, you make a lot of noise," he says.

He approves her mission with one caveat: It must begin in the United States, where more than 1 million Italians have immigrated and are in need of assistance. They're battling not only poverty but racism, too. She agrees to go.

"From now on, my sisters, we speak English," she tells her fellow nuns.

The film Cabrini (PG-13) follows the story of Mother Cabrini, who enters the U.S. through Ellis Island -- sailing by the Statue of Liberty -- and sets out to change the world. Angel Studios (Sound of Freedom) is distributing it.

Here are four things you should know about the film:

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The creator and director of The Chosen says in a new interview that clickbait headlines too often drive the online debate about the series and that he wants fans and non-fans alike to be fair in their dialogue and to seek the truth "even if we disagree."

A high school student from Mississippi amazed American Idol judges with her voice when she sang an original song about struggling with sin.

Great American Family announced Tuesday it is launching its own mystery movie franchise, with Candace Cameron Bure starring in the series' first title.

It turns out, McCartney had a conversation in which he embarrassed his mother. Then she died at the age of forty-seven when the singer was just fourteen years old. Now he wishes he had an eraser he could use to rub that "yesterday" moment away...

Roughly half of the viewers of the Bible-based hit series The Chosen are not Christians, according to new data that demonstrates the reach and impact of a show that had humble beginnings but is now available on major platforms such as Netflix and Prime.

The filmmaker behind Netflix’s new Chronicle of Narnia adaptation for Netflix says in a new interview she wants the project to be “magical” and that her goal is to give viewers a “re-enchantment of the world” through the series.

Sharon is a talented hairdresser with a can-do spirit and a candid tongue. She doesn't take no for an answer. She says what she thinks.

She's also an alcoholic with an estranged adult son who resents her for her addiction. She drinks vodka for breakfast. She stumbles home from the bar late at night. Far too often, she covers her personal pain with a drink from the liquor bottle. Her friends try to intervene but have little success.

Soon, though, Sharon discovers something that gets her mind off her failures: a newspaper story about a 5-year-old girl who is critically ill and whose mother recently died. Sharon can't get the story out of her head. She attends the funeral. She launches a fundraiser. She reaches out to the father. Of course, Sharon doesn't personally know the family. She just wants to help a neighbor in need.

"We all need to find meaning and purpose outside ourselves," she tells a friend. Will Sharon's assistance make a difference? And can she get her life back on track?

The new faith-based movie Ordinary Angels (PG) tells the uplifting story of Sharon, her new friend Ed, and his family.

Here are four things you should know:

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