The number of Americans who identify as Christians has declined in recent years, from 78.4 percent in 2007 to 70.6 percent in 2014. That drop-off is most pronounced among young Americans, but it cuts ...

The music director at Victor’s St. Patrick Church composed a hymn and choral anthem to mark the church building’s centennial.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Monday that "after six years of work reviewing thousands of submissions and gathering hymns from across the world, 12 hymns of the new 'Hymns ...

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Randall Black has fond memories of growing up singing in a small church. He recalls the hymns offered up at Carbondale’s Grace United Methodist Church, and he remembers the way those songs were sung. ...

A Scottish church has voted to allow the singing of hymns and playing of musical instruments for the first time in 160 years, according to a report. The Free Church of Scotland, which split from the ...

Two old hymnals, both well worn, rest on a desk in Roger E. Olson’s home office in Waco, Texas. The leading theologian used one hymnal in his childhood. The other comes from the church he attended as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Eleven new hymns have been added to the new hymnbook for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ...

As people of Jewish faith observe Passover this week on Zoom, for Christians it is Holy Week, ending with Easter Sunday. Music is at the core of many religious rituals. Because of the COVID-19 ...

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 ...

The Free Church of Scotland has voted to relax its rules to allow hymn singing and the use of instruments in its churches. A plenary assembly gathered in Edinburgh to rule on the change. Unaccompanied ...