A new film out this week depicting the life of Jesus aims to reach an audience its director says has long been overlooked. "JESUS: a Deaf Missions film," will be the first of its kind made up of a ...

Stories about Jesus Christ have been shared for centuries. But Joseph Josselyn, a deaf Christian and film director, is telling a story about Christ in American Sign Language — for the first time ever.

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama “Jesus of Nazareth” — but as a deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Deaf Missions and Iconic Events Releasing announces the release of the first-ever ASL adaptation for the silver screen, JESUS: a Deaf Missions film.

Leon Devriendt is happy he is deaf because he has the opportunity to help others. “Yes, I am very happy to be a deaf person. God gave me such a gift,” Devriendt said through an interpreter with a ...

The sign language film with subtitles screens in downtown Santa Rosa Sunday. Actor Chris DeSouza, who was born and grew up in Santa Rosa, has a key role in an American Sign Language film about Jesus, ...

It’s the 23rd Sunday in ordinary time and today’s gospel shifts from the three weeks of the Bread of Life Discourse and moves on to another title that we call our Lord Jesus Christ, as a healer of the ...

In an audience with six thousand people from the Apostolic Movement for the Blind and Little Mission of the Deaf-mute, Pope Francis speaks of the "culture of encounter" and that of "exclusion", ...

When Jesus heals the deaf man in today’s gospel, he is clearly fulfilling what had been prophesied by the prophet Isaiah; when God comes, the ears of the deaf will be unstopped, and the speechless ...

Joseph Josselyn remembers being fascinated by the 1977 drama Jesus of Nazareth—but as a Deaf child, he had to rely on closed captions to catch the dialogue. “I had this thought: I wonder what it would ...

We’ve moved from a whole month’s discussion on the teaching of the Evangelist John called the Bread of Life, which many Catholics understand as the major doctrine of the Catholic Church, but through ...