A mid-19th century Vatican proclamation of the dogma that Mary was conceived free from original sin, which the Catholic faith ...

Young Aretha would meet visitors to the Franklin home from every walk of life, including some of the most prominent gospel musicians of the day (Clara Ward and James Cleveland), many of the great ...

A few members of the congregation of St. James Episcopal Church braved cold weather and slippery roads to attend the final ...

Historic Christ Church Episcopal on Johnson Square invites the community to enjoy a free concert on Friday evening, December 19th at 7:00 PM. The program features beloved congregational hymns, new ...

It's the Second Sunday of Advent, and we look towards Christmas with a carol by Shirley Murray and Jillian Bray; Hawkes Bay ...

An Atlanta church with a viral pastor has grown from less than 200 weekly churchgoers in 2023 to about 6,000 today.

Dave Willat was just 11 years old when he showed up for what he thought would be a routine church choir practice in 1965. He and his fellow singers ended up making history.

Christmas spirit returns to Bethlehem after ceasefire in Gaza - At midnight on Christmas Eve, the hymn “The Night of ...

You may not know it (yet), but lots of holiday earworms have the work of a Pennsylvanian — or several — behind them. From 19th-century religious hymns to covers of Christmas classics by some of ...

The Chinese government is using an increasingly powerful tool to control and monitor its own officials: Surveillance ...

The church has moved to dismiss the case because of the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine—a legal principle rooted in the ...

Included in the first batch of new hymns, “ Star Bright ” is written from the point of view of the people in the Book of Mormon who were looking for the prophesied signs of the Savior’s birth (see ...