More foreign tourists visit London than any other city in the world – 16.8 million last year – though according to the young barman in the Old Bell Tavern, not many of them get as far as the bottom ...

After the emergence and growing presence of Christian praise songs on Sunday, some modern hymn writers are looking to go retro. According to NPR, husband-and-wife duo Keith and Kristyn Getty of ...

Whenever I talk about how pop worship music is inappropriate for Christian worship, I get comments accusing me of making hasty generalizations, and directing me to “fresh” and “new” pop recordings of ...

These days, German church congregations have a wide-ranging choice between timeless classic hymns and contemporary church music - a mixture that is as colorful as the secular music charts. "Sing to ...

Traditional hymns, litanies, motets and prayers in Konkani, Latin, and Portuguese, widely sung in churches in Goa and passed down through generations would have died a fast death if Father Antonio da ...

To create their secular-hymn criteria, the trio looked at Cohen's "Hallelujah" as a baseline and explored other songs that have been used repeatedly in public settings for purposes that cross over ...

Walk into most black churches Sunday morning and you're more likely to hear the choir sing from the gospel top 40 list than sing old-time "Negro spirituals" or hymns from traditional hymnbooks.

Religion professor T. David Gordon says Muzak has shaped singing in church. In his new book, Why Johnny Can't Sing Hymns (P & R Publishing), T. David Gordon argues that modern worship choruses have ...

Jerusalem is the favourite hymn of Gordon Brown and Prunella Scales Traditional religious classics, including Love Divine and Amazing Grace, have trounced "happy clappy" offerings in a battle to find ...

Ho Chi Minh City (AsiaNews) - Music, traditional hymns and choruses are a valid tool of prayer, evangelization and attraction for young Vietnamese victims of a society arid increasingly, and only ...

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