Ash Wednesday signals the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and spiritual preparation leading to Easter in many Western Christian traditions. The following images capture Chicagoans ...

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Author Maggie Anton shares why, after writing a novel set in the 20th century, she decided to write a novel set in Biblical ...

One of the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays, Passover commemorates the Jewish people’s exodus from slavery in ancient ...

5:8-10 would be redundant. Now if God simply forbids the making of graven images, then there are problems elsewhere in the Bible. First, in Exodus 25:18-21, God commands Moses to make two statues ...

The mother of Moses, born on the cusp of slavery, merited living out her days in the place designated by God for the people ...

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Maundy Thursday is the day before Good Friday and was the night that the faithful believe that Jesus celebrated his final Passover with His disciples ... As he washed their feet, he said according to ...

Israel said earlier on Sunday that it supports a proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire through Ramadan and Passover, or April 20. It said the proposal came from the Trump ...

The way we calculate the date was set by the Church long ago at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 to keep it in line with the Jewish Passover and the Bible's timeline of Jesus' resurrection. Lent is ...