The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released 11 songs for its new hymnbook on Thursday, including a translation of a Spanish hymn and a new melody for a familiar hymn.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Tuesday that the church’s new hymnbook will have around 375 hymns and children’s songs in its printed version and is expected to be ...

A Brief History of Hymns By Simon Lole Songs of Praise conductor, composer, arranger and organist For almost two thousand years, Christians have used music as a way to worship.

Professor J. B. Dissanayake, the well-known scholar and author, will be honoured with the launch of a festschrift that celebrates his immense contributions to Sinhala language, culture, and literature ...

After 32 years with the same hymns, many Mormons are wishing for different songs to sing Music • The classic hymn, which has enjoyed renewed popularity after being cut from the church’s 1985 ...

The poems, termed didactic – Lovada Sangarava and Subhasitaya – have been translated as Towards Universal Well-being and Well Spoken respectively, and published as a second edition by the Buddhist ...

The March 2018 Sinhala-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka underline growing communal schisms in the island state. This article examines the rise of Sinhala ultra-nationalism and the violent groups primarily ...

THE Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for December 1942 contains an article by P. E. P. Doraniyagala on “Sinhala Weapons and Armor”. The work of the Sinhalese armourers ...

Recently, when a popular television quiz show asked to name the first Sinhala novelist, the answer was erroneously stated as Simon de Silva, and the novel as ‘Meena’. ..

During this season when the world is celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ with related religious festivities it is relevant to trace briefly how the poetry, prose, and hymns of Christ in Sinhala, ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Tuesday it expects its new full hymnbook will be released in four languages in 2027, with about 375 hymns.