Welcome Francis my friend, to this land with the fragrance of the forest, to this Church with the ... Marco López wrote the lyrics and Kiki Troia, an Argentine Catholic singer, did the musical ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

According to Bob Smietana of USA Today, the committee putting together a new hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (USA) dropped the popular hymn because the song's authors refused to change a phrase ...

Our Christmas songs and carols turn up in some surprising places. They come from some surprising places, too. “Ding, Dong!

The International Marian Research Institute has often been asked for familiar hymns for a May devotion to Mary or a May Crowning ... Ave, ave, Maria! We pray for the Church, our true Mother on earth, ...

After I went to “Communion,” I joined the choir and learned the hymn ... Joseph Catholic Academy in Queens and as the music director of nearby Corpus Christi Church. But on Oct 13, 2021 ...

Panaji: When the relics of Saint Francis Xavier were brought out from their resting place at the Basilica of Bom Jesus to be ...

The legend behind one of the most popular Christmas carols in the world plays out as a sort of Christmas miracle. The story goes that Father Joseph Mohr of Oberndorf, Austria, was ...

Three months after the murder of Juan López, a Honduran church worker and environmental activist whose death was publicly mourned by Pope Francis, the bishops of Latin America are raising ...

The “ripsnorting battle hymn of the Navy” was inspired by Chaplain Howell Forgy, 34, who left the pulpit at Murray First ...

The name Václav was Latinised as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas, and Otto I, who was Holy Roman Emperor from 962 to 973, ...

But who composed the carol, and what are the original lyrics? ‘Silent Night’ is one of the world’s most famous Christmas melodies. The story goes that the carol (originally ‘Stille Nacht’) was first ...