Here’s the origin of Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter, when Lent ends and why the dates they fall on change every year.

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, Christianity's 40-day season of prayer and fasting leading up to Jesus ...

Ash Wednesday is officially here! The Christian season of Lent — the 6-week period that leads up to Easter — starts. What we ...

Noticing people with smudges on their foreheads today? It is Ash Wednesday, kicking off the 40-day Lenten season of prayer, sacrifice and fish Fridays ...

The 40-day period of Lent starts with Ash Wednesday. See the 2025 dates, and why and how Christians observe the religious holidays.

Additional dates for 2025 include the early and late May bank holidays, which fall on Mondays May 5 and May 26, having moved ...

He may have trouble breathing, but the pope is not senescent and remains the church’s absolute monarch on earth. He has ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory (at right), the retiring archbishop of Washington, dispenses ashes to Cardinal Robert McElroy, the ...

Lent is here, and many are looking for seafood alternatives while they fast. Here are some Texas restaurants offering fish and seafood specials.

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Ex-Hibs loanee Eliezer Mayenda has lavished praise on his former club as he revealed how his experience at Easter Road helped ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...