Easter chants echo in ancient cistern near birthplace of Christianity By Henriette Chacar and Nisreen Salem April 23, 202212:29 AM PDTUpdated April 23, 2022 ...

Historian John Dickson knows that “early” Christian music usually refers to sacred chants from the ninth or tenth century. So when he noticed a reference to an ancient hymn from hundreds of ...

A few steps from Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a small opening leads to an underground cistern where clerics have found the perfect place to practise chants ahead of the holiest day ...