ExpertImages collected from a video recorded of the Billiri Easter Procession incident.Courtesy: Bile Nuhu.Images collected from a video recorded of the ...

Historian teams up with Chris Tomlin and Hillsong’s Ben Fielding to adapt rare music dating back to the third century.

Inextricably linked with the gospel tradition, the best country songs for Easter are almost always sublime songs of praise.

Good Friday in 2025 falls on April 18. Christians worldwide will observe the day with prayers and reflection. The day marks ...

A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the ...

A third-century Christian hymn is being revived for a modern audience. Known as The First Hymn, the song was discovered over 100 years ago on a scrap of papyrus in the Egyptian desert. The fragment, ...

LA MIRADA, Calif. — In ancient Egyptian ruins on a scrap of tattered papyrus, archeologists found written remnants of a Christian hymn long buried by desert sand. The discovery was sealed in a ...

While the song is dubbed ‘The First Hymn’, the New Testament itself is thought to contain fragments of hymns sung by the earliest Christian congregations. Dickson explained that “this is a song from ...

“And it’s thoroughly Orthodox Christian theology.” Archeological dating could certify without a doubt, Dickson said, that the hymn dated to the mid-200s, owing to paleography and “a corn contract on ...

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