So when I bumped into the preacher later, I asked about the song and he explained it was a Fijian hymn, with a title that translates as Oh Lord, Why Me?, telling the story of a disabled child who ...

THERE’s a classic episode of The Simpsons in which Homer gets a gun. He thinks his awesome gun is great for everything: home defense, opening beer bottles, whatever. When Marge says she doesn ...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Most Greenlanders are proudly Inuit, having survived and thrived in one of most remote and climatically inhospitable places on Earth. And they’re Lutheran.

If you knew a great bakery, you’d tell people. If you read a great book, you wouldn’t keep it a secret. But off I truck to the West Side of Manhattan and in the big door past the greeters ...

In the two years since Aaron Renn moved to Carmel, Indiana, he has become a kind of unofficial booster for the unusual suburb of Indianapolis. For Renn, Carmel is proof that "we can have an ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans who identify as Christian has declined steadily for years, but that drop shows signs of slowing, according to a new survey Wednesday from the Pew ...

REVEREND Samson Arojah Albert, a cleric and gospel musician, has announced his decision to launch a collection of over 1,000 hymns in one of the nation’s indigenous languages.He aimed to further ...

NEW YORK — Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style made her one of the top recordings artists of the 1970s and an influential performer long ...

On Feb. 25, Grandmother’s Voice organization hosted a profound event, “An Evening with Jody Wilson-Raybould,” as part of their two-day conference, “Truth with Reconciliation: Respect ...

More challenges arise when the poem in question is a 40-verse (chalisa) hymn in Avadhi ... With this portable little book, Seth joins legions of poets with his own telling of a mini-Ramayana.

England can look forward to matches against the likes of Fiji, Australia and Argentina ... on to make sure everyone is singing off the same hymn sheet. "We're always pushing the bar to keep ...