ALL ARE INVITED to the Pennington United Methodist Church Hymn Sing & Organ Recital, the second program in its 250th Anniversary Celebration series, on Sunday, April 21st at 3 p.m. From the beginning ...

(RNS/ENI) Fiji’s military government has banned a massive annual hymn-singing contest and church conference out of fears that the crowd of some 10,000 singing Methodists could destabilize the ...

Mourners sing 'We Shall Overcome' outside the historic Emanuel AME Church(Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images) How did a simple hymn rise to become a world-wide civil rights anthem, described by the US ...

The last days of the late Enoch Teye Mensah, affectionately called E.T Mensah, have been described as a whirlwind of hope and despair, marked by fleeting moments of joy and prolonged bouts of agony.

The Bristol home of Methodist Charles Wesley is due to reopen to the public later for the first time in a year. Wesley, who died in 1788, was a prolific hymn writer whose 6,000 plus compositions ...

John Tyson lets the “other Wesley,” Methodist hymn writer Charles, take center stage. Listed into the Cause of Sin, Why Should a Good be Evil? Musick, alas! too long has been Prest to obey the Devil; ...

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette creates “sung prayers” for a problem that seems difficult to solve while also spurring people to end gun violence. Her hymn “335,609 (I Cried to God),” sung to the tune of “Be ...

Church leaders say government officials fear singing would lead to political instability. Fiji’s military government has banned a massive annual hymn-singing contest and church conference out of fears ...