On 7 November, the lyric that has lodged itself in the political and emotional memory of modern India – Vande Mataram – completed 150 years since its composition.

The apostolates that have taken up this task of sanctifying culture through art and music reveal that music is not an ...

Ghanaian gospel singer Jerry Odom has released a powerful new single titled Nhyira Nsem, a spiritually charged single that is ...

Among the songs that I remember from my parents’ collection of phonograph records of Yiddish folk music was a melancholy and ...

On November 7, 1875, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay composed Vande Mataram, inspired by Bengal's spirit of Durga Puja. This six ...

Newark Advocate faith columnist Jeff Gill explains why putting holiday decorations out early can detract from the liturgical season of Christmas.

In the quiet dawn of Chhath Puja, as the first rays of the sun pierce the mist over the riverbanks, women dressed in saffron ...

Her soul-stirring rendition of Marathi bhaktigeet, Ambebaicha gondhal, has fired up Instagram. Tejashree Ingawale tells us how she was moved by her grandmother’ ...

Seven Indian festivals that celebrate nature and animals with joy and gratitude, showing how closely our lives stay connected ...

Anyone, of course, is free to define her/ himself/themselves as not a member/ members of a Jewish ethnos, a goy — a people (that is what “goy” means, and in Biblical texts, is what “Israel” is called) ...

The remarkable story of the Deccani Sikhs — descendants of the soldiers of Maharaja Ranjit Singh who were dispatched to the ...

Applying our ultimate belief systems lends a moral compass for public-sector leaders for how to show up and relate to others.