Easter Sunday moves around the calendar. Here's why this culmination of Holy Week can take place between March 22 and April ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a weekslong period for the faithful that comes ahead of one of the most joyous ...

The U K -based group Christian Concern has begun a Lent prayer campaign urging supporters to devote daily prayer time toward ...

Lent is the 40-day period of repentance and renewal preceding Easter. It is a special spiritual season for meditation, prayer ...

Easter is a significant day on the Christian calendar. Billions of Christians look forward to Easter Sunday each year, and ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, Christianity's 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving in preparation for Jesus ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for many Christian denominations. Here's the meaning behind one of the holiest observances in the faith.

This year we celebrate Lent amidst a growing crisis in America, driven by the political accumulation of wealth, power, and ...

Lent begins in a matter of days, and while it’s taken on a life of its own as a secular observance, the Lenten season is an ...

After this year’s extended period of Ordinary Time, Christian believers will soon begin the penitential season of Lent. St. Luke tells us that after his baptism, the Lord Jesus was “filled wit ...

What is Lent? Do I have to give up chocolate, or drinking? Why do people have ashes on their foreheads? For 40 days, millions of Catholics and members of some other Christian denominations around ...

CANTON − Lent, the 40-day period in Christianity leading up to Easter, is the one tradition that the world's more than 45,000 Christian denominations have in common. The practice of Lent ...