Whitney Houston’s family wants to highlight her Gospel roots
Los Angeles, US AP Whitney Houston’s brother remembers when his young sister listened to their mother during Gospel rehearsals before she mimicked every tune that was sung. As Houston rose to pop superstardom, her exceptionally talented vocals were rooted in Gospel music. And now, her family – led by her sister-in-law Pat and brother Gary […]
Another war: how Sarajevo’s musicians sang through a siege
Berlin, Germany Reuters Setting out to tell the story of Sarajevo’s four-year siege in the 1990s, Nenad Sicin-Sain thought he was documenting Europe’s last big war – only for Russia to invade Ukraine during filming, heightening the emotions of an already fraught project. Kiss the Future, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival on Sunday, […]
‘The Jesus Music’: In a new documentary, Erwin Brothers recount the glory and mess of Christian music
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on the making of a new US documentary about the Christian music scene…
John Legend credits childhood in Pentecostal church for his choice to pursue music
RNS Singer-songwriter John Legend, known for his contributions in the R&B realm, says he’d never have become a recording artist without the influence of his childhood church. “I grew up in a Pentecostal church in Springfield, Ohio,” the 11-time Grammy Award-winning artist said Friday, during a virtual news conference for the upcoming PBS documentary series […]
The preaching politician: ‘Good Trouble’ documentary follows John Lewis from fields of Alabama to halls of Congress
RNS Before he was a Democratic congressman and before he was a civil rights activist, Representative John Lewis preached to the chickens on his family’s farm as a young boy. It’s a story staffers of Lewis can repeat by heart because they’ve heard it so many times. “They would bow their heads; they would shake […]
THE INTERVIEW: MARTIN DOBLMEIER, MAKER OF ‘REVOLUTION OF THE HEART: THE DOROTHY DAY STORY’
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks with film-maker Martin Doblmeier about his new documentary on Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement…
Female Syrian doctor in Oscar-nominated film hopes to inspire women
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation A female Syrian doctor who ran an underground hospital in a besieged rebel stronghold says she hopes an Oscar-nominated documentary showing her work will encourage other women and girls to demand equal treatment with men. Amani Ballour, 32, is seen facing bombardments and shortages of food and medicine while also challenging […]
As Emanuel AME documentary screens, survivors, families mull grief and guns
Washington, DCRNS Felicia Sanders, who survived the shooting four years ago at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, told a tale of two Bibles. First, there was the holy book she used for the Bible study the shooter infiltrated that Wednesday night in June of 2015, returned to her after she […]
DOCUMENTARY: ‘HESBURGH’ CAPTURES THE SIMPLE FAITH AND OUTSIZED INFLUENCE OF “FATHER TED”
HEATHER ADAMS reports on a new film about the life of influential US Catholic priest, Rev Theodore Hesburgh…
ARETHA FRANKLIN: NEW DOCUMENTARY SHINES A LIGHT ON THE MAKING OF SINGER’S GOSPEL ALBUM ‘AMAZING GRACE’
ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, reports from the US about a new documentary looking at the making of Aretha Franklin’s 1972 live Gospel album, ‘Amazing Grace’…