A popular hymn ... Christian prayer for peace, with its broadly inclusive language, has been very frequently set to music. The most well-known hymn version is this one, written in 1967 by the ...

Hymns mean so much to so many people and if you have a favourite BBC Songs of Praise would like to know. Choose your all-time ... of all Christian melodies and gets its name, “Old Hundredth ...

It is impossible to think of American music in this century without such Southern-derived forms as ragtime, jazz, blues, country, gospel ... traditions - such as old-time fiddling and string ...

Today, only about 100 Doukhobors remain in the tight-knit Russian-speaking farming community in two remote mountainous ...

On the palm-fringed shores of the Indian Ocean to the south, British district officers ... mustached Julius Nyerere, 36-year-old head of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), slapped ...

This riveting moment introduces James Walvin’s exploration of the past and present of what may be the most widely known ...

Among this week’s minor musical milestones, I see, is the 300th anniversary of a premiere involving Johann Sebastian Bach’s setting of the old Lutheran hymn ... Jesus and a Christian receiving ...

Harris was raised in the Black church and says she prays often with her pastor. But her religion is not a dominant part of ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of members of South Korea's Christian groups held a service in Seoul on Sunday to protest against a landmark court ruling that acknowledged the rights of ...

A growing Christian nationalist movement sees a Trump win as a conduit to rule by religious hard-liners who reject the ...

is being honored at a time of racial tensions at home and ... Sherlee Bowman, spokesman for Southern Christian Leadership Conference, says group respects Bush's right to pay tribute to King ...