At its peak some 3,000 years ago, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon was the largest metropolis on Earth. Renowned for their literacy, the city's residents left behind stacks of cuneiform ...

More than a thousand years after it was last heard, a long-lost hymn to the ancient city of Babylon has been brought back to life, thanks to AI. This remarkable rediscovery gives us new insights into ...

The 1890s were a God-fearing time when people went to church by default, believed the sermons, sang the hymns and knew the words – which is presumably why there was a keen readership for one of the ...

A free phone line for people to listen to hymns and prayers during lockdown has been so popular it's already received over 100,000 calls. Daily Hope is funded by the Archbishop of Canterbury and set ...

At half-past seven on a December morning too chilly for saints, too early for sinners, a man in glasses watches the faithful pour into Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church: Children rub sleep from ...