Christ the Lord is risen today ... allelujah, allelujah, allelujah ... In various versions, the music of Easter is rising from the rooftops of Christian churches today. And for legions of people who ...

The joy of Easter in Elmhurst included the Visitation Parish Catholic Church Children’s Choir, whose members sang at several of the church’s services, culminating with the 11:30 a.m. Mass Sunday. The ...

Many worshippers will not be able to gather inside churches for Holy Week services this Easter season. The coronavirus pandemic has restricted gatherings and temporarily shut down many churches. The ...

Local church musicians and choir singers are warming up this week for the Easter celebrations that begin officially with Palm Sunday on April 13. That day launches a full week of both joyful and more ...

Easter was a very different experience Sunday for those who usually have attended a local church service in person. With the coronavirus pandemic resulting in a statewide shelter in place, several ...

With Easter come some staples: Peeps, egg hunts and, for churchgoers, George Frideric Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. It's the five-minute piece often sung at the end of the service on Easter. The music ...

Members of the Freeland Community Choir, under the direction of Shelia Butkiewicz, have been rehearsing for the upcoming performances of their Easter cantata “The Body of Christ.” Performances are ...

A plane soars above St. Cecilia Cathedral in Omaha during Holy Week as area churches prepared to hold Easter services in 2018. Betsie Freeman 1949: A group of children from Clifton Hill school tour ...

The Lake Avenue Congregational Church choir in Pasadena, California, has been diligently practicing virtually ever since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but said nothing replaces the feeling of ...

It was 1919 and George and Minnie Kinney, along with their 12-year-old son Richard, were new arrivals to Detroit from Georgia as part of the Great Migration. For Black families establishing roots in ...