The word "amen" is not a gendered word and the term "a-women" is entirely made up, a professor of theology who specializes in Hebrew told CNA, after a prayer in the U.S. Congress used the fake word.

We come across the word "amen" throughout the Old and New Testaments. Using Hebrew letters, אמן, or ἀμήν in ancient Greek, it's a word that's actually more than 2,500 years old! In Hebrew, it shares ...

Why should one word only, even, should be able to move the same way through centuries and across borders, appearing in the synagogues, the churches and the mosques, hardly changed at all in form? One ...